United States Army7d
Speaker shares glimpse of Civil War soldier’s life through letters
Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army ...
Military.com11d
How a Civil War Drummer Boy Became the Youngest Medal of Honor Recipient
Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.
The Advocate19d
Union soldiers burned Alexandria to the ground in 1864, but who gave the order to do it?
"Hell" was the soldiers' words ... Richard Taylor's Confederate forces in west Louisiana; organize pro-Union state governments throughout the region; and most importantly, confiscate as much ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution7d
New Civil War research more fully details deaths in South, Georgia
New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.
Black Enterprise27d
Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
“Hundreds of thousands of African Americans who fought for the Union in the ... wars long before the Civil War, there was initial resistance to recruiting them as soldiers at the start of ...
Daughters of the Union seek to preserve marker as mystery surrounds another
San Pedro Park marker honors first president of Union women’s group; readers asked to help track down a plaque dedicated to ...
BBC17d
Why Edinburgh has a Confederate soldier memorial
As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break away from the Union. The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ...