War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, making it accessible for residents throughout Maryland and the DC metro area. Admission is ...

In the photograph, the young soldier looks past the camera lens. Blood stains his face from shrapnel wounds. Grenades hang ...

He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...

PLYMOUTH, N.C. (WITN) - A ceremony and ribbon cutting were held in Plymouth to remember the black soldiers who fought during the Civil War. On display at the memorial is a photo that was taken in ...

Lt. William Cullen, an officer with the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment, died in the Battle of Antietam Creek during the Civil War on Sept. 17, 1862. Schuylkill County Common Pleas Judge William Burke, … ...

The real soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Carney was the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor, though not the first to be awarded.

As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war, it is amazing to consider that offspring of those who fought are still among us. It doesn’t seem possible that the math could add up. But it does.

The Virginia Tech computer science professor is the creator of Civil War Photo Sleuth, a publicly available digital home of Civil War-era portraits for soldiers and sailors who served.