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 ...

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

A Civil War veteran from RI was buried in an unmarked grave. Now he's getting his due. Civil War Veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked.

The Ohio Civil War Show was held for the 47th year over the weekend. It started with only 60 tables. This year's version had nearly 800.

In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once called it the "god of war." ...

The Boonsboro Historical Society will host a talk on Civil War artillery on Tuesday, March 25.