Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

“This battle ... 1861 so they couldn’t vote for secession. “We can never win,” sighs Vaise, who volunteered at the fort as a teenager and has been an employee since 1994. “The Civil War ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

At the height of the battle and with control of the hill in hand, Lee commented to Longstreet … “It is well war is so terrible, we would grow too fond of it.” Not long after, a Confederate ...

Among those watching the Lexington reenactment was Brandon Mace, a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserve whose ancestor ...