The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

Tim O’Neal is the secretary-treasurer of the Baker camp, a nonprofit that locates the final resting place of Union soldiers, ...

Bill Barto will spend Veterans Day at the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage where he will share family stories of ...

The City of Hickman, Kentucky dedicated an “In Memory Of” headstone to John Hughey, who served in the U.S. Army.

Time had nearly erased their names, but this weekend, two Civil War veterans at Lock Haven’s Highland Cemetery were ...

Zach Nunamaker, of Momence, gave a presentation on Iroquois County soldiers who served in the two largest Illinois infantries ...

More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Brigadier Gen. Joe Shelby, renowned for his Missouri cavalry raid in 1863 where his “Iron Brigade," of Missouri volunteers ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...