For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

On both sides, the Civil ... war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or presented to the leaders of ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these ...

The three-day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major ... nation after the Union – led by Major General George Meade - defeated General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia ...

During the Civil War, African Americans fought for full participation in American society and as surgeons and nurses for the Union Army, they found themselves in new and familiar roles as healers ...