A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

Might he move his warships into position then ... Fort Sumter in the early morning hours to notify Beauregard that Anderson had rejected the ultimatum. With the Federal naval expedition now ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, the U.S. military established Fort ... the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Here is some history about the four people whose names are now linked to ...

But after the first guns at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for ... stretched the Confederate line to the left. Then came Early—in hot haste, now thoroughly committed to Virginia’s cause ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

A battle scene, in blue and red ink and bearing ... After Confederate forces opened fire on the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, President Lincoln asked ...

Hundreds of Jews in union blue and rebel gray lay dead beneath battlefields ... who before the fall of Fort Sumter preached a policy of silence to Jews on the issue of human bondage, believing ...

It’s home to Fort Sumter ... The Battle of Camden, fought on August 16, 1780. It was one of the most significant and disastrous defeats for the Continental Army in the war. The site is now ...