A 2021 study of memorials in America counted 5,917 monuments that memorialize the Civil ... soldiers’ sacrifices; it is a memorial to the deliberate forgetting of the deepest meanings of the war.

It allows you to look for every soldier who participated, from either the Union or the Confederacy. The information about the ...

“But it also gives us a glimpse into the personal involvement of Jewish soldiers fighting for the Union cause.” About 150,000 Jews lived in the United States at the time of the Civil Wa ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book The Jewish Confederates, published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about his ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

as well as The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database maintained by the National Park Service, 24/7 Wall St. identified the states where the most Americans enlisted during the Civil War.

Many soldiers were wounded in combat, often at major battles such as Stones River and Gettysburg, but survived until long after the Civil War’s conclusion. An estimated 620,000 soldiers died ...