TROY – In full Union Army dress and speaking as if straight from the 19th century, living historian Kenneth J. Serfass ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 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 ...

What Was the Civil War? Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked.

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.

Contributed photo The Sanders coin's current owner Bob Moffatt (right) with the late great Steve Tanenbaum (left), who sold Bob this token. He told me that tokens from the Civil War were privately ...

How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day 8 minute read An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Getty Images ...

There is nowhere like Appomattox, this is actually where Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, and that signaled the end of the Civil War," Wilk said.