New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

In this episode, we visit a Confederate camp reenactment featuring members of the 48th Alabama Infantry. Their historically accurate gear gives us a unique opportunity to learn how to identify Civil ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

Orion Perseus Howe was 12 years old and living in Waukegan when he enlisted in the Civil War. At age 14, he became one of the youngest people to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after being… ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Donations were organized by the New York State Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and the Col. George L. Willard Camp #154, ... in honor of the 77th infantry known as the Saratoga Regiment.

In Civil War, Woman Fought For ... Albert D.J. Cashier was the shortest soldier in the 95th Illinois Infantry. In one of the few existing photographs of Cashier during the Civil War, ...

The infantry was organized in Saratoga on November 22, 1861 and served in the Union Army during the American Civil War for three years under Colonel James B McKean’s command.

Descendants of the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army in the Civil War gather each summer on Lake Erie. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site ...

This leads me to my friend who recently visited Fort Sumpter, where the Civil War broke out in April 1861. I have not had the pleasure of visiting the site – to stand there and imagine that the ...

A survey of Civil War artifacts in the Smithsonian’s collections would not be complete without one of the most cherished pieces at the National Museum of American History—a top hat worn by ...

Jerry had been a Civil War re-enactor since the age of 9, but he only learned about the Wide Awakes a few years ago. ... “1776” and the Civil War infantry bugle.