The Civil War — at least in Charleston — was lost. After capturing Savannah in December 1864 ... seized after Union troops moved to Fort Sumter in 1860. The U.S. flag was quickly raised ...

Little does she know he’s just the first in a long line of such confrontations she’ll have to deal with as the Civil War rages in its penultimate year and she becomes the caregiver of a Union ...

Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy continued to resist. If it could hold on, perhaps it could win the war by wearing down the Union ...

The story of the Free State of Jones in southern Mississippi during the Civil War was turned into a ... Chaos followed. By 1864, the U.S. flag was flying over Winston’s courthouse.

They raised the first secession flag in the ... This grand 1864 Gothic Revival home is where Union General William Tecumseh Sherman headquartered during the end of the Civil War after his March ...

It's of Hans Lang, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest natural beard for a male — his beard measured 17.6 ft ...

It happened to Hans Steininger, a 16th-century Austrian mayor famous for having a long beard. His beard was so long, in fact, ...

Wounded six times in battle during the American Civil War, Chamberlain had been in poor health for many years, still suffering with near-fatal wounds sustained at the siege of Petersburg in 1864.

Feb. 19 The flag-of-truce steamer New-York sailed this forenoon for City Point, taking up about thirty women and as many children, who have decided to reside South during the war. They were from ...

South Conway’s Civil War historian Bill Marvel has published his most recent book, “The Confederate Resurgence of 1864.” Unless you had Karl Seidenstuecker, your high school history teacher laid out ...

By the mid-19th century, these celebrations had either stopped or been largely muted as living memory of Washington began to fade, but the coming of the Civil War sparked ... 22, 1864, with military ...