20th. Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming. Between 1866 and 1873, 35,000 miles of new track were laid across the country.

This video is part two of a two part series on War Trains. If you want to get the full history of these titanic engines of war through the Civil War times to the end of World War One you can check ...

Historian and battlefield guide Darryl Smith will present “The Battle of Perryville and The Kentucky Campaign” at the next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley ...

“Come, come and eat with us!” came the cry from a family grouping eagerly tucking into rice and curry spread out on a banana ...

The armored train was first seen in the American Civil War, according to The Jamestown Foundation. But the battle-ready form of transportation came to prominence in World War I, when Russia used ...

The armored train was first seen in the American Civil War, according to The Jamestown Foundation. But the battle-ready form of transportation came to prominence in World War I, when Russia used ...

R ussian Civil War propaganda had a bold and convincing style. Posters adorned urban sites, while trains draped in patriotic ...