On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

Object Details Description Numismatists, people who study or collect coins, generally categorize Civil War Tokens into three themes: patriotic, store cards, and sutler tokens. As with this coin, ...

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 ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at a loss. One such oddity — a ragged chunk of leather — is part of the Civil ...

Appraisal: 1863 Civil War Grave Marker Group, from Cleveland Hr 2.

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove to be a federal judge has sparked a larger battle within the conservative legal movement.

EU civil war explodes as Ursula von der Leyen sidelines MEPs with £128bn plan Ursula von der Leyen said she bypassed MEPs to address "existential" challenges in Europe.