American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

a Confederate military cargo transport ship. One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ashore for the night ...

On both sides, the Civil War boasted men who were brilliant ... used by or presented to the leaders of Union and Confederate forces. National Museum of American History Pin made of William T. Sherman ...

The long-standing issue of why the Army honors Confederate officers who betrayed their country during the Civil War came under renewed scrutiny in February when Marine Corps Commandant Gen.