A piece of Civil War history was brought back to life on Dauphin Island Saturday as Fort Gaines marked its 161st Battle of ...

You can let your Civil War memories lie, Dear Reader, or you can shake them up by sprinkling over them the pleasure of reading Silent Cavalry. But, beware: In this case when it Raines, it pours.

After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a 'Yankee holiday' ...

Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but died after they arrived. (John ...