For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

Claire Rosen photographed the letters along with other Civil War artifacts, including a Federal Forage Cap worn by Union soldiers, a canteen, a regimental flag, a glass inkwell, a U.S. standard ...

The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...

Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ... Aeronauts used signal flags to help signal Union commanders. The corps was also innovative in another way. The balloons were ...

George Pickett, who steered more than 12,500 soldiers that day ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding.