In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is ...

When the Civil War broke out, Black people were officially barred from fighting in the military, historians say. Yet, faced with dwindling numbers of white volunteers, the Union allowed them to ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Now, Bray aims to track down descendants of John E. Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland County — for a Memorial Day ceremony. Civil War veterans group Bray ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The cremains of U.S. Civil War Union soldier and Pawtucket native Byron R. Johnson were laid to rest on Wednesday, more than a century after his death. The ceremonial ...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - A Union soldier’s grave marker has been missing for decades, but now, thanks to a local organization, a new one has been created in his honor. The soldier from ...

William Cullen, an officer with the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment, died in the Battle of Antietam Creek during the Civil War on Sept ... that I am going to pen of a soldier so brave,” it read ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

A remembrance group, with help the VFW and American Legion, began a process of identifying and recording every gravesite of a Civil War veteran in Minnesota. Gary Carlberg, Commander of the Sons ...

ALBION, N.Y. (WKBW) — Civil War Union soldier Daniel Walterhouse may have died 100 years ago, but his memory is alive and well, all thanks to two middle school students in Albion, Kendall ...

LONDON — A Civil War soldier received military burial honors ... at the East London Cemetery and was hosted by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. White was born in the United Kingdom ...

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is ...