Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...

Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War’s ... were freed after Union troops defeated the Confederate Army. Nearly 200,000 Black soldiers and sailors ...

However, that isn't a contradiction about the city's pre-Civil War structures ... in Alexandria was the Union Army's final act in central Louisiana. "Hell" was the soldiers' words, and they ...

It is our No. 1 tourism asset in Jessamine County. It’s our most visited spot,” said a longtime Camp Nelson volunteer.

Ella Millen, Weaver’s daughter, created a collage of her father’s Civil War experience. In gratitude, she wrote, each of the six soldiers were ... a ceremony in the Union League of ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...