McKinley understood the Civil War as one who had lived it, having served four years in the 23rd Ohio Infantry, enlisting as a private and discharged in 1865 as a brevet major. He knew the steps to ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Civil War era flags representing the 90,000 Michiganders who fought in the war were returned to public display Saturday at the state Capitol building. The flags are ...

It includes 374 Union flags from the Civil War, 22 from the Spanish-American Ward and several pre-Civil War state militia company flags from the 1820s and 1830s.

"You can do it. We can do it. So, that's where we go next." South Carolina's leaders first flew the battle flag over the Statehouse dome in 1961 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Civil War.

Cue documentarian Ken Burns for the rest of the details. But one Civil War mystery still brews long after Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

With the end of the war at hand, the men of the regiment witnessed the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and his army at Bennett Place, North Carolina, in April 1865, which was ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederateu0003Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered tou0003Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

Two Civil War soldiers who infiltrated Confederate territory to steal a train and destroy the enemy railroad system were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday ...