And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and ...

Lee arrived at the McLean house first, wearing a crisp gray uniform ... The Union was saved, but the intersections of race and legacy of slavery, which was at the core of the Civil War, continues ...

John J. Casseday, photographed in his army uniform, was part of a family that sent five members to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He later became a prominent Rochester business owner.

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States ... Confederate or Union soldiers, came out of uniform, with absolutely no flags or anything like that, because it was ...

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 ...

On both sides, the Civil War boasted men who were brilliant ... used by or presented to the leaders of Union and Confederate forces. National Museum of American History Pin made of William T. Sherman ...