There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

In the American Civil war there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage, fashion crazes or special requirements.

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...

Now, Bray aims to track down descendants of John E. Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland County — for a Memorial Day ceremony. Civil War veterans group Bray ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American ... in the Civil War. Blanton said estimates range from about 400 on the Union side ...