The Battle of Gettysburg, considered to be one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, came to an end on ...

July 3rd holds a significant place in world history, marking moments of triumph, transformation, and cultural milestones ...

Brandy Station Battlefield, site of the biggest cavalry battle of the Civil War and Virginia’s newest state park, now has a ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War that happened there ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Maryland’s Civil War Country Seeks a Softer Side. The novelist Nora Roberts’s small hotel in Boonsboro, Md., not far from the Antietam battle, highlights the softer side of Civil War country.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...