The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

But one daring prisoner of war took matters into his own ... on Kenneth wildfire 25 facts that you may not know about the Civil War Cardinals pull incredibly classy move by sending planes to ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have ...

His student trainees composed Company B in the 85th regiment of Ohio. The company contained nearly a quarter of the undergraduate population and set off to war in 1862, primarily acting as guards for ...

Azterodt was executed by hanging in July 1865. Powell was a former Confederate prisoner of war. Tall and strong, he was recruited to provide the muscle for the kidnapping plot. When that plan ...

Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition ... hold him in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After Lincoln's reelection in 1864 on a ...

It accrued worldwide fame for capturing hundreds of ships, burning over 60 Union vessels and taking hundreds of prisoners ... from the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea duel ...

Captain Henry Wirz, commander of a Confederate prison camp was tried and executed for 'conspiracy to destroy prisoners' lives in violation of the laws and customs of war' and 'murder in violation ...