In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and most devastating defeats suffered by the Union Army. As General Burnside ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 marked the explosive start of the American Civil War. Confederate forces fired over 4,000 shells at the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, forcing a ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Almost a year into the American Civil War, the Union forces laid siege to Fort Donelson. In this episode, we're going to find out why this fort was strategically important, and how Ulysses S Grant got ...

Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

To gain deeper insight, Moore, along with the project’s USCT Ancestry Committee and Virginia Tech students, collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...

More than 400 community members showed up to the Hoard Historical Museum last Thursday evening in support of Fort Atkinson ...

that sacrificed for us,” Paddock said. “They helped make America the great country that it is and Fort Wayne the great city that it is.” Civil War nurse and Fort wayne native Helena Wolff ...