U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Until recently, these soldiers were unidentified. Snyder used his contacts as a Civil War re-enactor to talk to members of the Sons of Union Veterans. This, along with other information ...

A bloody civil war between the Southern Confederacy ... who had inflicted heavy losses on the Yankee troops. And, of course, many Union soldiers saw it as an omen of doom. Citizens in ...

“But it also gives us a glimpse into the personal involvement of Jewish soldiers fighting for the Union cause.” About 150,000 Jews lived in the United States at the time of the Civil Wa ...

Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book The Jewish Confederates, published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about his ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

To identify the states that sent the most troops to fight in the Civil ... side of the war most troops from each state or territory fought on, we used enlistment totals from Soldiers and Sailors ...

Many soldiers were wounded in combat, often at major battles such as Stones River and Gettysburg, but survived until long after the Civil War’s conclusion. An estimated 620,000 soldiers died ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

“The superintendents and the museum curators — they said we didn’t fight in the Civil War,” Dukes said recently. The Black soldiers’ valor and service to the country is no longer ...