The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

Firstly, an Abstract Secondly, the text of Memoir of an Artillery Officer in the First World War. The title page indicates a creation date of 1960. Thirdly, maps and illustrations that accompany the ...

Man pardoned for Jan. 6 gets life in prison for plotting to incite "civil war," attack FBI agents A Tennessee man pardoned by President Trump in January for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault ...

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.

Bakels said the Seminoles' tactic was to fall back, luring the soldiers into a trap. Then, according to accounts of the ...

In February 1966, A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the workhorse that carried out numerous strikes and faced ...

POCATELLO — The family of the 17-year-old disabled boy Pocatello police fatally shot during an incident on April 5 has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city.

Russia has begun deploying T-54 tanks—originally introduced in the late 1940s—to the Ukrainian front. This video investigates their surprising role as makeshift self-propelled guns. With few ...

President Donald Trump is being hammered on social media after claiming the Civil War “could’ve been solved” without more than 600,000 people being killed in the conflict.