This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

Long before we did this at football games, it was done on the battlefield during the American Civil War - and it goes back ...

Jonathan Rice, author and resident of Atria Bell Court Gardens, recently read passages from his book, "Moving Mountains: A Study in Civil War Logistics," at an event at the assisted-living ...

For certain women during the Civil War, staying home or following the army to cook and care for the men wasn't enough. Hundreds of women, disguised as men, entered the.

Four children of Civil War soldiers still live in Virginia ... two years ago always tended a massive garden that yielded prize-winning vegetables and quarts and quarts of canned food for the winter.