One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

While the practice of preserving bodies can be traced back thousands of years to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, American embalming developed as a distinct tradition during the 19th century, ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

It's now about 23.4 million. In 1865, in those tumultuous last six months of the Civil War, Florida came to experience what only a handful of American states has: surrender and occupation.

The museum’s timeline exhibit takes the visitor month to month through the war showing ... April 16, 1865 is an important date in history for both places. It was Easter Sunday, and some of the final ...

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...

A timeline of Camp Nelson during the Civil War is on display at Camp Nelson National ... Of those, 102 people die. January 1865: In response to the tragedy, the Army establishes the Camp Nelson ...

By Richard Newby [This story contains spoilers for Civil War.] “The footage you’re about to see may be disturbing.” That content warning, broadcast on the news too often in modern history ...

This article contains major Civil War spoilers. It’s the smiles that ultimately get to me. The entire, deafening finale of Civil War is meant to disturb as secessionist soldiers storm the nation ...