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 ...

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.

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War.

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 ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil War.

The ashes of over two dozen veterans of the Civil War, along with the remains of their spouses, have finally been interred after being stored at a Seattle funeral home and cemetery.

The new wayside marker for the Nuns of the Battlefield Monument across the street from the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington, D.C., includes illustrations of women religious ...

A wax statue of Abraham Lincoln melted in a heatwave in Washington DC, part of Sandy Williams IV's Wax Monument Series highlighting Civil War history.