The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known as Heritage Sites.

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

One of the last Confederate strongholds has provided plenty to learn about history in the Wilmington area during the Civil ...

Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...

Patrick Cleburne, who was born in County Cork and went on to become a Major-General in the Confederate States Army, has a city in Texas and two counties in Alabama and Arkansas named after him.

The popular "Yellowstone" TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state's history: its ...

In the spring of 1865, Confederate and Union forces were at a stalemate outside the city of Petersburg, Va., about 30 miles ...

Lee’s Army of North Virginia and became associated with the Southern Democratic states after they lost the war. In 1865, the ...

A lawsuit filed to appeal a city's decision to relocate a Confederate statue may hinder other towns who want to try and move ...