One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

On the heels of the 161st anniversary of the day the H.L. Hunley and its crew sank, the North Charleston museum has newly ...