The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War was the deadliest ... National Cemetery with full military honors. The ceremony included the U.S. 4th Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms, a musket volley, a rendition ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium ... match to his gray uniform seemed no coincidence in Jessee’s portrayal of the man watching the Union Army grow on the other ...

The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil rights figures ... where he joined the Union Army’s first official Black unit in 1863. His finest hour in uniform occurred in July of that ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...