U.S Army surgeon J.D. Irwin led the first Medal of Honor action on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861. He helped rescue 60 trapped soldiers and a kidnapped boy from Apaches.

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroads. Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil ...

After the war, Billy returned to Clarke County only to serve his community further. He assumed the role of sheriff in 1885 ...

Shiloh was one of the largest amphibious campaigns ever waged by an American Army. It was a brutal Civil War battle that where one in four who fought was killed or wounded. Highlights the 135th ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... along familiar roads and by waters with old American names. In two days at Shiloh, on the banks of the Tennessee River, more American men fell ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War. Johnny Clem might well have ... the drummer boy won fame at the battle of Shiloh, where he put down his drum, picked up a gun, and shot ...

These soldiers fought at Williamsburg, Manassas and Shiloh, among other famous and ... Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression ...