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 ...

Mike Hadl, left, and Tom Schmidt, right, both members of Lawrence's chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, stand behind a new headstone dedicated to Civil War veteran Doc ...

On April 12, 1862, twenty Union soldiers dressed as civilians walked into a Georgia train station with a wild plan. Led by ...

Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year. Check out our latest YouTube videos.

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

For Union soldiers, a cup of coffee made hardtack biscuits more palatable. Heritage Auctions. Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which ...

Although Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the head of the Union Army, on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, the Civil War did not end until 16 ...

India is initiating Operation Shield, a large-scale civil defence exercise across states bordering Pakistan, in response to escalating regional tensions and recent terrorist attacks. The drill ...

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

Civil War Monument in the State Street park across from the Schenectady County Court House Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) ...

The suit claims Cooper Union — a private college in the East Village specializing in architecture, art, and engineering — failed to take measures to shield Jewish students from bigotry ...

Capt. John E. Perkins, the company commander, named him "Old Abe" after President Lincoln, commissioned a special "union shield" perch for the bird and assigned one of his troops to look after him.