At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... Strother’s terrifying assignment sketching the Confederate Army encampments outside Washington, D.C., which got him arrested ...

Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ...

In 2017, the planned removal of a Confederate statue from a park in Charlottesville, Va., led to a right-wing rally protesting that plan, and a counter-protest (resulting in one fatality and ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the ...

For many Americans, both civilian and military, who lived through the conflict, the Civil War was the monumental event of their ... Veterans groups such as the United Confederate Veterans and the ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter ... an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment ...