Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.

This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Deciding who is a hero certainly depends on one’s point of view. During the Civil War, spy operations were instrumental in ...

Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

Bitcoin shed about 7 per cent of its value from Sunday night through to Monday morning in Singapore to reach a low point of US$77,077. Second-ranked token ether plummeted to US$1,538, an intraday ...

A west London businessman who used his trade in vehicles to war-torn Ukraine as a “veneer of respectability” for a £6.7 million money laundering operation has been jailed. Valeriy Popovych, 52, played ...

The currency is now trading at $1.10 per euro ... The long-anticipated “Liberation Day” has arrived, plunging the world into a global trade war. Last Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ...

Members of The English Civil War Society paid a visit to the private school in Park Road to talk about the war and show boys replicas of costumes and weapons used in the 17th century conflict. The ...

especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that Confederate troops clashed with Union soldiers for three days in July 1863, resulting in a decisive victory for the North.

Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, believed to be the last Confederate soldier killed in battle, was recovered from a backyard in Munford, Alabama — 155 years after the Civil War ended. Buried in ...