Civil War Trails Inc. announced in May that Chris Brown has been named executive director of the organization, which oversees a network of more than 1,550 historic sites across six states.

An academic historian had written about her, and she was sometimes included in lists of the moonlight-and-magnolia-style of female civil war spies, the kind historians don’t take too seriously.

Usually, a civil war is one where all of the fighting takes place within a single country. It occurs when two or more organized groups from the same country clash because of major disagreements ...

Dozens of people who hadn't even heard of Civil War veteran John Weigel until today honoring his memory and his family. The first of its kind in Westmoreland County, *** Memorial Day ceremony for ...

Because of what they sacrificed for me, the heroes who found rest in this glen were black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, 12 of them and their families. Local history has it the cemetery ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...

About the only people happy to see Saturday's persistent rains were the Civil War vendors. Because of the dreary conditions for the opening of the 47th annual Ohio Civil War Show at the Richland ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday night, actor Alec Baldwin claimed that Americans are currently living in a "pre-Civil War" environment. The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the ...