At their most basic level, Civil War uniforms distinguished Union troops from Confederate troops: Union troops wore blue while the Confederate troops wore gray. However, a number of distinct ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact ...

We were happy to get them reinterred quickly, quietly and respectfully,” said Jack Gary, director of archaeology for The ...

The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as ...

More than 160 years after they were captured and executed by Confederate ... Civil War, it was the only award for valor, and members of the locomotive raid became its very first recipients. Union ...