Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

At 85, Fred Minus has turned his passion for history into an educational mission, performing reenactments of Union soldiers and giving lectures about the Black men, young and old, who served in the ...

Brookmere Cemetery in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood was established in 1843 and is the final resting place for some of the early settlers of the area and their descendants.

Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing prisoners in," Sernaker said.

Mitchell, Leinicke said, perpetuated the myth that the Rock Island prison “was the Andersonville of the north,” where thousands of soldiers died in appalling conditions at Camp Sumter in Georgia.

Slideshow: A Civil War POW Camp in Watercolor. On November 27, 1863, Union Private Robert Knox Sneden was captured by soldiers under the command of Confederate leader John Singleton Mosby at ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities specifically intended to house war captives during times of conflict.

Camp Douglas was shut down after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The prisoners who were still there were ordered to take an oath of loyalty to the United States, and the buildings were torn down ...