American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in the south. Taking place between 1861 and 1865, it was arguably the first ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war ... a piece of pottery—that highlight African-American involvement in the Civil War. They offer students opportunities to research and ...

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United ... for the first time since the civil discord in the United States, an American vessel hoisted the flag of ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on ...

Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota ...