U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 150-year-old "witch bottle" used to ward off evil spirits in a Civil War-era fort in ...

This story was originally published in May 2021. There are nearly 150 Civil War memorials in more than 130 cities and towns ...

More than a half century after Americans began decorating the graves of those who died during the Civil War, the annual ...

Memorial Day is set to be observed Monday, May 26. Here's what you need to know about the holiday dating back to the end of ...

Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory.

William Bray, who commands the Greensburg chapter of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Captain George A. Cribbs Camp #276, says that his organization, both locally and nationally, aims to pay ...

Green Bluff's Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

Dr. E. Curtis Alexander has dedicated his life to preserving the history of the U.S. Colored Troops, whose contributions ...