For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Colonel William Colvill of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, a lawyer and newspaperman before the Civil War, was the first man in his county to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Volunteers gathered at a Rockford cemetery to honor Civil War veterans by cleaning their gravestones. Jennifer Dyer Mickelson has been honoring civil war veterans for ...

The Manitowoc County Historical Society is celebrating 100 years since the organization was gifted the Flag of Company A.

volunteer organizations, and even civilians. It was almost two full years after the end of the Civil War before Congress finally passed formal legislation to establish and protect a vast system of ...

Surgeons and assistant surgeons of volunteers 3. Regimental surgeons ... Did doctors amputate too readily during the Civil War? Foster immediately diagnoses gangrene—what did this mean for ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...