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

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

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

The Civil War was a military ... in which states’ rights and the institution of slavery were points of extreme contention. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention ... slavery should be allowed into the Union as new states. But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation.