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

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

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions to the Union.

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.

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.