The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a ... At this point in the war, Union supplies of coffee, including those from Liberia, were so assured that Northern soldiers could even ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...