Western Maryland and Frederick County are experiencing a boom in tourism due to the region's Civil War history.

A German immigrant who volunteered to fight in the Civil War but was killed by a mob before reaching the battlefield has been honored as Pennsylvania’s first casualty of the war. A proper memorial to ...

Pennsylvania Civil War-era gold: FBI's records on Pennsylvania search raise questions FBI claims the 2018 excavation at Dent's Run for Civil War-era gold was a bust. Associated Press.

The sword of a Scranton hero who died in the Civil War disappeared in the 1970s, thought to be lost for good. The community ...

The first Memorial Day observance at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie on May 30, 1887, was "impressive in the extreme," according to the Erie Morning Dispatch.

DENTS RUN, Pa. -- The FBI has come up empty at the rural Pennsylvania site where Civil War gold is rumored to be buried. State officials and members of a treasure-hunting group joined the FBI at ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, black men simply couldn’t serve in the U.S. Army. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass called for the Army to recruit black soldiers, but federal officials at ...

PITTSBURGH -- Construction crews began Wednesday removing more than 300 Civil War-era cannonballs found underground a construction site in central Pennsylvania. The hundreds of cannonballs buried ...

James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt published "Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War." The 2007 book explored the Mennonites and Amish response to the Civil War. Background posts: Stack of ...

Re-enactors donned top hats and Union Blue uniforms, and carried flags, fifes and drums into the state Capitol rotunda today to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first battle. Gov. Tom ...

While it concentrates on Civil War history, the CWRT has managed to acquire quite a bit of its own. In 1960 America was looking toward the 100 th anniversary of the Civil War.