When 32-year-old Union Army Major Sullivan Ballou of Rhode Island sat down on a quiet Sunday night in July of 1861 to write his wife before heading into battle in Manassas, Va., he knew it might ...

And one more June event – the Civil War came to York County. About 11,000 Confederates marched through the county from June 27 to July 1, 1863. The county paid a major human cost of men in uniform.

24/7 Tempo compiled a list of famous quotes about war from a ... Confederate general Robert E. Lee showed they were not desensitized to the violence and destruction wrought during the Civil War.

At 89 pages, Wade Hall’s study of Southern Civil War humor is definitely in this category. Considering that the war was a four-year bloodbath with sometimes tens of thousands dying on the same ...

A visitor to an exhibit at the Lincoln Memorial walks past an image of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, April 2015. Getty Images On this day 151 years ago, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered ...

A young visitor views a display of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Springfield, Illinois, on March 21. Reuters It's been 150 years since the end of the Civil War, but the words ...

In 1860, with South Carolina threatening to secede and the nation on the brink of civil war, a Nashville teenager named Mary Hughes Lord started making a quilt.