The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

They accepted war. The question who fired the first gun is nothing. If the so-called "Confederate States" are not in the Union, then they are a foreign nation, and Mr. STEVENS consistently so ...

Attendees sat in over 90-degree heat to watch the reenactment. Reenactors with the Confederate army fire their muskets at Union soldiers. It’s all different here, for a reason that only occurs ...

A park that was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of Hanover has a new name, in honor of the Union soldiers that ...