A Union Army battery makes final preparations on the day before the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, which proved to be one of the most disastrous defeats for the Union during the Civil War.

The American Civil Liberties Union, Democracy Forward, and the ACLU of the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over the president’s unlawful and unprecedented invocation of the Alien ...

Some 179,000 Black men served in the Union Army during the Civil War and another 19,000 served in the Navy, according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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For Union soldiers, a cup of coffee made hardtack biscuits more palatable. Heritage Auctions. Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force. The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, ...

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

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

When the civil war began in Sudan, Shiraz Youssef couldn’t hear the explosions, the gunfire or the screams. The 22-year-old from Khartoum lost her hearing when she was very young. But the ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was a devastating loss for the Union forces during the Civil War—leaving images of desolation across the battlefield, seen here.