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 ...

Democrats were more likely to view a civil war in the near future as possible, according to the poll.

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E.… ...

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.

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.