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A piece of Civil War history was brought back to life on Dauphin Island Saturday as Fort Gaines marked its 161st Battle of ...
Where destruction occurs, growth follows. That is the story of the Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park, a 140-acre plot ...
In this 4K metal detecting expedition, we uncover Civil War artifacts hidden along an overgrown Alabama road. From lead bullets to uniform buttons, each find reveals a forgotten story from the 1860s.
In the neighborhoods around the Alabama Capitol, where nearly 50,000 people gathered in March of 1965 to meet the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers and push for voting rights, nearly a quarter of ...
In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...
Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but died after they arrived. (John ...