IRWIN, Pa. — In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County on Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel. The ceremony at Weigel's ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

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.

The cover of "Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War," written by Gerri Willis.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Members of the Greensburg camp of national organization Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War pose for a photo at St. John’s Harrold Reformed United Church of Christ in Hempfield on Nov. 2, 2024.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for ...