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 ...

This month marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. A Colorado man has a unique perspective on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arsenal also served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers. By the end of 1863, nearly 5,600 prisoners were held at the Rock Island prison. In 1864, the members of the 108th United ...

Davis and the Confederate Congress threatened to kill white officers of the U.S.C.T., and permitted their commanders to use black prisoners-of-war as human shields and killed white Union foragers upon ...