NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, ...

In 1865, the Confederacy crumbled under the weight of military defeats, economic exhaustion, and internal dissent. This video unpacks the decisive moments and strategic failures that led to the ...

Lorain County Veterans Service Commission officials deserve credit for purchasing 39 books from the 103rd Ohio Volunteer ...

Lt. Nelson Purdum was a Ross County native, who lived in Springfield Township. During the Battle of Chickamauga, Purdum is ...

Curt Fields is the preeminent U.S. Grant historian and reenactor. The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley is excited to present Field’s first-person portrayal of Lieutenant General Ulysses S.

The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

Saban Films has revealed the official trailer for an action thriller movie titled Resurrection Road, an indie film telling a story from the days of the US Civil War (1861-1865). This is set for a ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate there were still around 65,000 enslaved people in 1865. In December 1865, the end of slavery was ...

It has been suspended only rarely in US history, most notably by president Abraham Lincoln during the 1861-1865 Civil War and in Hawaii after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply ... At the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, Michigan soldier William Smith noted that the Confederate ...