U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

By then, the Civil War was more than three years old ... numbers by entrenched Confederates. This pencil drawing captures the chaos of the Battle of Cold Harbor, which took place between May ...

Beneath the flap of canvas tents and the slow crackle of smoldering campfires, Civil War history came to life last weekend ...

the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home. Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings ...

This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle. It will take place an hour south of Raleigh ...

The anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station is June 9. On that day in 1863, during the Civil War, battle ensued for more just over half a day. Today, the American Battlefield Trust has ...

A bloody civil war between the ... first glimmers of foresight that the war would eventually cease and that healing would begin. Seven weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, the nation’s leader ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired musket volleys and the crowd sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." ...