Christine Kooi, interim history department chair, knows the World War I-era sword was there the morning of Jan. 24, because she hosted a Zoom meeting from her office and a participant on the call ...

The regiment first went of to war Aug. 16, 1861. A local businessman supplied the soldiers with a barrel of smoking tobacco, plus pies, cakes, chickens and apples, according to the Peoria Daily Times.

Most items are from the Civil War years of 1861-65, but some date to Revolutionary War. Shako military hats date to the Mexican-American War. An 1810-1840 era sword was used by a member of the ...

Dana Shoaf talked about the history of the bayonet as a weapon and how changes in gun technology affected its use and practicality during the U.S. Civil War. He also described the difference in ...

Union soldiers also tossed thousands of Confederate weapons and supplies into the river, including sabers, bayonets, tents, backpacks, ball cartridges and gunpowder, according to Live Science’s ...

The recent 150th anniversaries of the Civil War’s beginning and its major battles have inspired Hale, 59, to learn more about the man with the sword.

A rare Civil War sword belonging to Union Brigadier General Eli H. Murray will be sold at an auction of Americana in Scottsdale, Arizona next week. A Southerner who fought with the Union Army ...

Previously found war relics. Relics from the Civil War have been discovered in South Carolina before. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew unearthed Civil War cannonballs from the sand on Folly Beach. A ...

The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer's Auctions, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The wartime sword, ...

The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer’s Auctions on Thursday in Columbus. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are ...

Rob Hale thought he had discovered the mythical sword in the stone. Well, more like the sword in the insulation. Back in the early 1960s, when Hale was about 10, he liked to play around in the ...