Tennessee, second only to Virginia in Civil War sites, joins North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia in this important project.

Crampton’s Gap is also the site of Gathland State Park and a 19-century monument to war correspondents erected by Civil War journalist George Alfred Townsend, pen name “Gath,” who also ...

At Antietam National Battlefield this summer, park rangers from South Mountain State Battlefield are spreading the word about Maryland's other Civil War battles.

While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the first blood spilled in fighting occurred in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, when a mob of ...

Maryland calls itself the Free State, but it was in no hurry to give up slavery during the Civil War. Elsewhere in the country, antislavery measures progressed rapidly. Congress freed the slaves ...

Federal government sharpshooters will target hundreds of white-tailed deer at two Civil War battlefields in Maryland this December, launching a multi-year program aimed at curbing damage to ...

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CIVIL WAR STORIES MARYLAND KEEPS HISTORY ALIVE AT BATTLE SITES By Morning Call | Staff Report PUBLISHED: May 26, 1996 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 4, 2021 at 3:18 a.m.

Craig Symonds of Annapolis, who co-edited the recently-released "The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861 - 1865," was hooked when he read a three-volume series on the war as a teenager.

The National Park Service (NPS) announced this week that $1,133,275 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants will go towards protecting four Civil War battlefields in Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia.

Historian Raffi Andonian talks about the Battle of Antietam, a pivotal Maryland battle that changed the direction of the Civil War.