Fort Wilkins Historic State Park will welcome reenactors for an immersive weekend of Civil War-era demonstrations, cooking ...

Join us on a historic tour of Fort Sumter, the site where the American Civil War began. During our visit with the National Park Service, we discovered an artillery projectile still lodged in the brick ...

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

I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which sits in Alton Cemetery. The ...

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 ...