In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

Forty years later, Sarah Halstead, the daughter of a 13th New York Cavalry officer, returned the hat to Mosby. A few days after it arrived, Mosby went to the White House and presented the hat to ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.

I have come to Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historic State Park, roughly 60 miles west of Richmond, to learn why so many people spend their weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War.

The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

1821–77 Tennessee Cavalry Officer. An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him.

In April 1863, Union cavalry shelled the town, destroying the Confederate camp and supply houses. ALSO READ: Cities Destroyed By the USA in World War II st john's ruins on tmax 100 4 ( CC BY ...

Grant led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War, and accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. He was made full general in 1866, and was elected U.S ...

As part of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Pennsylvania campaign that summer, Early’s division of about 6,600 men crossed York County’s western border on June 27.

I have come to Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historic State Park, roughly 60 miles west of Richmond, to learn why so many people spend their weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War.