Robert Smalls was a historic South Carolina lawmaker who escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship.

While metal detecting for Civil War relics, the History Seekers uncovered a true rarity—a Confederate coal torpedo, used in ...

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

The move is stirring up conversation in and outside military circles. Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine ...

Civil War soldier H.L. Thomas made it to within a few hours of his home in Galesburg, Ill., only to die near Lafayette.

On Saturday, ground was broken on a new visitors center at the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp site, which aims to help further ...

A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...

Henry Wirz, the commander of the infamous Andersonville prison, became the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes after the American Civil War.

Congressman Darin LaHood is seeking to rename the Bloomington VA clinic for Andrew Jackson Smith, a Civil War hero with ties ...

The university's president in the 1910s set out on a quest to find out where the "Tigers" name came from. But he ran into ...

Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s ...