The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

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

On July 29, 2025, the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps celebrates 250 years of answering the sacred call to serve God and country.

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men ...

IT was in this week of 1645 that the second Battle of Inverlochy took place as part of the tumultuous 17th century War of the Three Kingdoms, ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...