Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Drum Barracks Civil War Museum has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2011 Vignette. Most appearances with Susan Ogle (2).

A new comic book will feature the story of Sgt. William Carney, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Civil War. Image via the Association of the United States Army/Army photo.

Now 160 years after the Civil War, many of our fellow citizens accuse our legacy news media of also contouring their reporting to mesh with their own institutional viewpoints and those of their ...

But “1861” is one of the few Civil War histories where Lincoln isn’t the most compelling figure. That title goes to a cast of characters, familiar ones such as abolitionist John Brown and ...

‘A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind’ by Stephen Budiansky. (W. W. Norton & Company) About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what ...