The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Cayuga County will receive the funding and re-grant it to the city of Auburn for infrastructure upgrades to support the ...

Conestoga Valley High School held its commencement June 6 at Calvary Church.

Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 in this painting, titled "Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

The first Juneteenth was held in Galveston the next year. Celebrations were low-key affairs, often kept to church gatherings ...

The sign shown in the cartoon topping this post is the actual signage now appearing in National Parks that reads like it ...

The walk is a symbolic gesture recognizing the 2 1/2 years it took for news of freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Kenneth Charles Wiencko, 7421 Langholm Way, Manassas Virginia and Tracy Lynn Stein, 507 W. Highland Ave., Wooster. Joshua ...

Those bases are Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett and Fort Robert E. Lee in Virginia, Fort Gordon in Georgia ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State University with a $150,000 grant. The ...