Dead Confederate prisoners were buried at Forest Hill Cemetery ... Though the structure traces back to the Civil War-era Camp Randall, its exact origins remain unclear. The structure dates to Camp ...

So far, 33 skeletons have been found near a notorious prison, officials said. The grisly find included the discovery of ...

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 ...

The Federal war steamer Kearsarge arrived ... to enlist or enter the sea service of the Confederate States of America. After a lengthy inquiry the prisoner was committed for trial.

Union Maj. Gen. William Sherman characterized them as “infernal devices.” By the end of the war, he and other Union officers were forcing Confederate prisoners-of-war to clear landmines from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Montana historian and scholar Ken Robison, Confederate prisoners of war languishing in Union prisons were paroled to western territories like Montana. By 1864, two such parolees had ...