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

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service's many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and educational, ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

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

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

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 ... the War Between The States.

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce ... the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and one infamous VP.

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy ... knowledge of Confederate movements and plans. Wary of white Union soldiers ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its reverse. It is a sketch map of the Arcadia Valley from Pilot Knob to ...