The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

a Confederate military cargo transport ship. One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ashore for the night ...

One witness testified that a majority of the prisoners had been at Chicago, where fifty or sixty Confederate ... civil as well as military, Mr. CLAY informed him that he directed the raid and ...

As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies. Robert E. Lee became a legend in the Confederate army only after turning down an offer to command the entire Union force.

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

Samuel Crawford, one of 24,000 Black Kentuckians who fought for their freedom and helped save the Union, is buried in ...