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 ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Eden Prairie author Wayne D. Jorgenson recently released “Every Man Did His Duty,” which is “a legacy to the men of the First Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, the first outfit volunteered ...

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered more losses in battle than the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment.

In it, Urdahl focused on Minnesota regiments from the beginning of the American Civil War to the winter of 1863. In his new book, “Remains of Glory,” he primarily follows the 5th Minnesota and the ...

Port Hudson served as the linchpin of Confederate control over the Lower Mississippi. Among the Union regiments attacking the well-fortified position were two African American units: the First ...

Miller is referring to the Black soldiers who made up the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment based at Camp ... is today U.S. 60," Miller said. But Confederate guerillas based out of ...

The 103RD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1862-65, was a Union, three-year regiment comprised of men from northeast Ohio during the CIVIL WAR. Within its ranks were approximately 460 men from ...