A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier’s annual event in Petersburg, Virginia. Historian Wilson Greene discussed the “Cracker Line” of the Chattanooga Campaign of 1863.

While metal detecting the historic Port Hudson battlefield, we uncovered Civil War relics that may mark the final position of a fallen cavalry officer. The siege of Port Hudson in 1863 was the longest ...

Near the site of Port Hudson - the longest siege in American military history—we may have uncovered the exact location of a Civil War cavalry officer’s final stand. Using metal detectors, we ...

Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a Civil War colonel uniform group, ca. 1863, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.

On Jan. 25, 1863, Corporal Orlistes R. Catey of Williamsburg wrote a letter to his wife from an encampment on the banks of the Mississippi River.

The book is a compilation of 130 letters and an 1863 diary written by Henry Andrews during the Civil War. The historical society was gifted the material by James Blakeslee.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial after his great-great-great-granddaughter, Spectrum News NY1 anchor Cheryl Wills, tracked down his unmarked ...

Among the reports is a journal entry by Capt. Charles B. Haydon of the 2nd Michigan Infantry, who was at Vicksburg in 1863 when he wrote: “The alligators eat some soldiers [!] but if the ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia, where ...