Chase, the first soldier returned to Hennepin County for burial, will be the fourth soldier recognized by Fliés' group, a subset of a Civil War task force Gov. Mark Dayton created as the 150 th ...

It is interesting that U.S. monuments to war, with few exceptions, commemorate the fallen, not the war. In Paris, the Arc de Triomphe contains the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but the Arc was ...

A love letter from a Civil War soldier still rings true on Memorial Day ... perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar, that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed.

War is hell, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have uttered.* And the food, he might as well have added, was pretty lousy, too. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...

Memorial Day traces its origins to over 160 years ago, when a grieving country sought to honor the many brave men lost in the Civil War, including Sgt. Joseph Allen Frith.

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 ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.