On a forgotten Civil War battlefield, we discovered relics that may have belonged to a fallen cavalry officer. These finds help reconstruct a powerful story of courage, struggle, and sacrifice.

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

How the Civil War Taught Americans the Art of Letter Writing Soldiers and their families, ... Private Isaac McCoy of Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, postmarked Feb. 2, 1863.

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

APPRAISER: So you brought us a Civil War presentation cavalry officer saber. And it's a presentation to him by the, the men of Company F, 2nd Maine Cavalry. GUEST: Yeah.

The Gallager carbine is one of the American Civil War's lesser-known cavalry arms, but it still used a unique design that allowed it to adapt to the metallic cartridge era that followed.

The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

The Stuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum first invited the public in for a peek during last fall’s Centreville Day. But it opened officially in June.

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...