COLUMBUS — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase ...

In one of the most daring raids during the Civil War, Union saboteurs infiltrated North Georgia, seized a locomotive and sped toward Tennessee. They destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph wires along ...

Louisiana provided over 24,000 soldiers of color to fight for the Union during the Civil War, more than any other state, and some of these veterans are still being honored today.

When Union forces swept through Guntersville in the final year of the Civil War, all but seven buildings were burned to ash.