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 ...

A dispute erupted over a statue honoring Barbara Rose Johns, who protested segregation. Her statue replaced Confederate Gen.

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.

Lynchburg City Schools celebrated their 160 years of public education and were awarded a plaque by the Sons of Union Veterans ...

Fleischer had boxed up the memoir and other items, including Sherman’s personal sword and military trunk, his family Bible and other mementos, driving them from a Sherman descendant’s home in western ...

Spain’s descent into civil war was not inevitable — but once it began, it became one of the most brutal and consequential ...

A remembrance group, with help the VFW and American Legion, began a process of identifying and recording every gravesite of a Civil War veteran in Minnesota. Gary Carlberg, Commander of the Sons of ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

The SAF is the nation’s official military. Prior to the civil war, it was responsible with enforcing the border, protecting the country from foreign entities and maintaining internal security. As of ...