Union Army reenactors march after a skirmish with Confederate reenactors during the annual Troy Civil War Weekend at the Troy Masonic Hall on Sunday June 5, 2011 in Troy, NY.

Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., was born June 5, 1812, so after the Civil War ended in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war of that date.” William Kendall ...

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 ...

America's only Civil War was a bloody affair resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers from both the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy -- with more Americans ...

TROY — A gathering Saturday morning paid tribute to a Union general disowned by his Virginia family during the Civil War and marked the progress to repair surroundings at his Oakwood Cemetery ...

Museum officials said, even 150 years later, it remains important to return the photos to families who had a link to the Civil War. The two girls, they said, still evoke powerful emotions.

Century-old group still pays tribute to Civil War soldiers. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War are a patriotic and educational group whose 45 members help perpetuate the memories of soldiers.

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.

Some historians believed it might be a photo of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad that sank 150 years ago in Georgia as Union troops captured Savannah. The image was believed to be the only ...

There are many misconceptions about why people in photographs from the Civil War era aren’t smiling. Maybe the photo took too long to take, maybe the people were bored or maybe it was their b… ...

The four-year Civil War would eventually claim the lives of an estimated 620,000 to 750,000 men from combat wounds and disease. A poster entitled "Greasy Mechanics Attention!" circa 1861.

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 ...