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

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

For two days in June, a field adjacent to the Delaware County Historical Association will be transformed into the rugged battlefields of the Civil War. Dubbed “Clash in the Catskills,” reenactors from ...

The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as ...

More than 160 years after they were captured and executed by Confederate ... Civil War, it was the only award for valor, and members of the locomotive raid became its very first recipients. Union ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era ... the Confederate Navy was largely outgunned by the Union Navy.

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th US Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as ...

The Texas Civil War Museum located on Jim ... museum with the intent of balancing portrayals of Confederate and Union experiences during the war. “The owner had so many artifacts that he set ...

The Civil War must have been a confusing ... the Five Civilized Tribes were pressured from both Confederate and Union forces to join in the war.