Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a Civil War colonel uniform group, ca. 1863, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

On a forgotten Civil War battlefield, we discovered relics that may have belonged to a fallen cavalry officer. These finds help reconstruct a powerful story of courage, struggle, and sacrifice. As ...

In the Civil War, Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick and David Gregg rode on county roads in late June 1863, a total of 6,500 troopers. Mounted Confederates under Jeb Stuart’s command totaled ...

Yet many Americans at the outset of the Civil War just didn't share that same ... resisted Lincoln's attempts to compel them to fight the war for the Union. ... than 640,000 men in uniform.

The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for the right, to fight ...

Members of the Blue and Gray Brigade Civil War reenactment group fire a gun salute during a ceremony Monday in Irwin’s Union Cemetery. The ceremony was held at the gravesite of John E. Wiegel ...

For Union soldiers, a cup of coffee made hardtack biscuits more palatable. Heritage Auctions. Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which ...

The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force.

Gravestones during a dedication ceremony for six Civil War veterans, who were previously in unmarked graves. The dedication ceremony, held by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the ...

At the dawn of the Civil War, New York City was led by Fernando Wood, a Kentucky-born, pro-slavery, onetime Tammany Hall Democrat recently remarried to a 16-year-old.Entering his third, non ...