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

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

One score and 12 years ago, a determined director and thousands of reenactors brought forth an epic film based on an historical novel chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. Now the New Ulm Film Society ...

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

We step back in history to a Civil War Confederate Camp with reenactors. We take a closer look at their equipment and show ...

Monroe St., Mount Pleasant. The presentation written and performed by Peter Grady, will explore Grant’s life story as commanding general of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and as the 18th U.S.

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The Soldier's Body Recovered in Yard is believed to be the last confederate ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

MITCHELL — Spring Mill State Park will offer an event that explores the hardships winter presented for soldiers of the Civil War on Feb ... Lincoln” (a reenactor provided by Lawrence County ...

Israel’s defense minister has announced a series of raids that he says are targeting “terrorism” in the occupied West Bank, as Palestinian officials warned of a “man-made disaster.” ...