History comes to life as we metal detect the very battlefield where a Civil War cavalry officer met his fate. This site holds hidden relics from a crucial moment in history, offering a glimpse ...

In May 1904, Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, departed their encampment in Monterey, California, for five months of field duty. It was common in the days before the existence of a ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country ...

“In the Mahaiwe Cemetery … there’s a headstone for several individuals of the Ford family,” Steve McAlister emailed me in 2022. The senior architect with Clark Green + Beck Architecture Design in ...

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

Information about Samuel Truehart, a private in the U.S. Colored Cavalry, is on display in the barracks at Camp Nelson National Monument in Nicholasville, Ky., on Monday, June 3, 2024. Ryan C.