Larson wrote “Wisconsin and the Civil War,” because of valuable new scholarship that has been done in the past couple years. Additionally, the advent of the internet has made some research easier.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

The South attracts American history buffs with its Civil War-era battlefields, cemeteries and mansions guarded by regiments of live oaks. Both American Cruise Lines and Viking offer Lower Mississippi ...

This photo of the headstone marking the grave of John Wilson Norton (1831-1906) is found on findagrave.com. This website shows that Norton is buried in the Dartford Cemetery in Green Lake and also ...

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

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

The American Legion Chippewa Falls set out to try to find the families of the veterans to help get them grave markers from the federal government.

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

Lucius Fairchild, a Union Army officer whose arm was amputated after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, was elected Wisconsin's 10th governor in 1865 following the Civil War. A Republican who fervently ...

Escaped enslaved people traveled to Wisconsin to join free Black communities in the early 19th century. Members of all of these groups formed regiments sent by Wisconsin to fight in the Civil War.