BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Tonawanda Band of Seneca leader and Civil War general is set to become the first-ever Native American posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar of Attorneys. Ely S.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...

The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most unique feuds came in the ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

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After we discovered it, Roberta and I always stop at Fox’s Gap. There is the Reno Monument, where the 39-year-old general died. It’s strange and a bit eerie to stand in the spot where someone was shot ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...