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

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

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

But after the first guns at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for 75,000 ... to probe the roads ahead—not to start a battle, but to make the Rebels think the army was aiming directly for Manassas.

South Carolinians opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to begin America’s bloody Civil War and put our Union in peril. Several months later a Rhode Island woman composed a battle ...

At the Second Battle of Petersburg in 1864 ... following the bombardment of Fort Sumter – the start of the Civil War. The First Defenders – two units from Pottsville and one each from ...

Early on the morning of April 12, 1865, exactly four years to the day since Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered his artillery to fire upon Fort Sumter — beginning the American Civil ...

“This battle, and all that flows from it ... or think Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of a fort called Sumter. “It’s all history in a blender,” Vaise says.