According to the Civil War Signals site, an effective Union cipher was to use nonsense words ... The first vehicles with on-board electrical communication systems were Civil War Telegraph Wagons.

In the Civil War, 160 years ago, the first Black soldiers fought alongside white troops in a Union victory over Confederates who ambushed a wagon train in the middle of the night. It happened only ...

As a 155-year-old legend goes, a Union Army wagon train left Wheeling, West Virginia, before the Battle of Gettysburg, carrying two tons of gold, but never completed its 400-mile mission. The gold ...

As a 155-year-old legend goes, a Union Army wagon train left Wheeling, West Virginia, before the Battle of Gettysburg, carrying two tons of gold, but never completed its 400-mile mission.

On this day in 1862, Peter Thomas Matthews wrote in his diary while serving in the 19th Indiana Regimental Band in the Union Army during the Civil War.

The Civil War officially began on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, but North Carolina had yet to pick a side. It wasn’t until May of 1861 that North Carolina voted to leave the Union.

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 ...

A plaque at Lincoln Cemetery commemorates Black soldiers who fought for the Union and died during the Civil War, as seen on Oct. 17. Obed Manuel/NPR hide caption toggle caption ...

As a 155-year-old legend goes, a Union Army wagon train left Wheeling, W.Va., before the Battle of Gettysburg, carrying two tons of gold, but never completed its 400-mile mission. The gold was ...