Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle. It will take place an hour south of Raleigh at ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...

Later, Parks Fort was referenced in William D. Street’s Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo. Street stated that ...

Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, departed their encampment in Monterey, California, for five months of field duty. It was ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had gained a full understanding of how busy undertaker and soldier were ... the horses of the Union cavalry useless and frustrate ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The Julian Historical Society has acquired several historic sites now open as museums, including the Washington Mine, the Santa Ysabel School at Witch Creek (moved to Julian near the Pioneer Museum), ...

Patrick Chaisson, a retired Army officer, Schenectady resident, and magazine writer, will speak about “Strange, Unusual and Innovative Weapons of the U.S. Civil War” during a free talk on ...

Eight score and two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act into federal law. The anti-fraud tool, enacted March 2, 1863, became known as Lincoln’s Law. Our 16th president ...