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.

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

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 ...

Provincially, the sniper’s fire only grazed Trump’s ear drawing blood ... The nation is polarized and volatile. A civil war, it seems, is more likely than civil discourse.

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

Over the course of the two-day battle, Union forces again crushed Hood's army, effectively ending the Civil War in Tennessee. Unlike many other Civil War battlefields, much of the area where Union ...