The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Artifacts found Metal detecting for confederate soldier civil war camps (private permission). After filming last week's ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Now, Bray aims to track down descendants of John E. Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland County — for a Memorial Day ceremony. Civil War veterans group Bray ...

But this week, President Donald Trump accused soldiers like them ... of women who fought in the Civil War. Blanton said estimates range from about 400 on the Union side to about 250 on the ...

Dempsey Daniel Butler arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1840s. An abolitionist and ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad, Butler opened a general store in the city. Through his business ...

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with the website for donations to the restoration project. The 16-foot-tall marble obelisk towers above the scatter of gravestones surrounding it.

Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ... Confederate soldiers bound for Gettysburg captured Lyles and her children. Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the ...