Our goal was to find Union or Confederate relics - but what we stumbled upon was a buried coin trove. Turns out, this spot doubled as a recreation area after the Civil War, and its visitors left ...

People huddling under a canopy. More than 700 gold coins with a value exceeding $2 million were found in a cornfield in Kentucky. “It looked to me like they were wrapping up a dig,” he said.

The Charlotte and Dahlonega mints operated from 1838, when the first significant U.S. gold deposits were found in those areas, until the start of the Civil War in 1861, said Douglas Mudd, the ...

Archaeologists found human remains at Colonial Williamsburg, which surprisingly dated back to the Civil War rather than the Revolutionary War. AP The graves were aligned east-west, with the head ...

Civil War-era coins pictured above were stolen sometime Saturday or Sunday (June 11-12, 2011) from the Museum of Transportation, 3015 Barrett Station Road, in St. Louis County. (Photo courtesy of ...