Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during ... during the Civil War, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum wrote on its website. “After the Union won the ...

Screengrab from the Outer Banks History Center on Facebook A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil ... point came when Union soldiers entered ...