Charles Albert Storke of Wisconsin was 16 when he joined the Union army in February 1864 ... Storke was among those captured and taken to Richmond's Libby Prison. He was transferred 12 days ...

The military bugle call used in 1835 was changed from Scotts Tattoo, (Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott — General-in-chief of the ...

President Donald Trump issued a series of pardons on Wednesday, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

On July 2, 1862 this nation was at war for its very existence. The Union Army was retreating from a campaign to capture Richmond. Victory was far from certain. On that day, the United States Congress ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

and so far were able to fight the Union Army. One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...