Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War ...

The North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) will celebrate its 75th anniversary during the organization's 151st National ...

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. Although divided, most threw their lot in with ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate ... to Union Gen. William Sherman at Bennett Place, North Carolina. Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War.

The Civil War lingers in memory as brutal and ... she saw a column of freshly inducted Union soldiers, in blue uniforms, marching and singing lines from a newly adapted spiritual: “John Brown ...

The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were barbarous, cowardly weapons — but by the 20th ...

During the Civil War, Anna's mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, organized women's groups to help care for sick or wounded Confederate and Union troops and organized Mother's Friendship Day to bring ...

The holiday's origins in the U.S. trace all the way back to the post-Civil War era, with ... that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers…” History.com says.