History Detectives heads to Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania to investigate the history of Civil War photography and discover the shocking truth of how Confederate and Union prisoners were treated ...

The Civil War ended in 1865. But a local group is making sure people of today remember it and are educated about it. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Civil War Living History Reenactment Saturday at Carroll County Farm Museum. Paul and his son Brady Atwood relax before battle during the Living History Reenactment at the Carroll Farm Museum in ...

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, organized in 1881, includes 6,000 members across the country; there are about 50 members in the Department of Wisconsin, which includes Minnesota.

Company A of the 3rd Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry participated Sunday in war reenactments and educational presentations dedicated to preserving Maine’s role in the American Civil War (1861 ...

George S. Cook took the first combat-action photos of the Civil War, of Union ships in Charleston Harbor as they fired on Fort Sumter (detail of ships below).

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

A Union Army battery makes final preparations on the day before the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, which proved to be one of the most disastrous defeats for the Union during the Civil War.

On Jan. 25, 1892, neighbor Carrie Boone found the body of her black friend Lewis Martin cold in his bed. It was Boone’s habit to look in on the 52-year-old Civil War veteran at the home he owned ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

The group now wants to let area residents “know of our existence as we begin to initiate our operations to expand the importance of our preserved Civil War history,” he added.