HUNTSVILLE, AL. - Got some Civil War photos or documents sitting in a box or gathering dust in your attic somewhere? If you do, Dr. John Kvach and his team want to hear from you. Kvach, a history ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading ...

SCRANTON – He wore dusty black boots, worn blue trousers and a brass-button-adorned overcoat to match. The man in uniform pinched a tattered cigar between the pointer and middle fingers of his right ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax ...

Tucked off in a barn in Drumore Township is the largest collection of Civil War-era cannons in the country. From mortars to Lyle line throwing guns, Charlie Smithgall's collection has hundreds of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHTM) — On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. On April 26, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the armies ...

Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., was born June 5, 1812, so after the Civil War ended in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war of that date.” William Kendall Crossfield, ...