This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

This year’s Battle of Aiken events, set for Feb. 21-23, will include a return engagement of weaponry that was in use by generations after Confederate and Union forces clashed in the Aiken area.

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the ...

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

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 ...

History also has overlooked, among the things, Butler’s post-war advocacy for freedmen and Black soldiers. As a member of the ...