Antietam is on this year's list of the 10 most-endangered Civil War battlefields prepared by the Civil War Preservation Trust, a District-based group that says land development is increasingly th.

Top 10 U.S. Civil War Sites. ... The site of the former Chimborazo Hospital, where countless wounded from Virginia’s many battlefields were treated, ...

Culpeper preservationists are charting a plan to develop a modern map of 10 local Civil War battlefields with financial backing from the government. The National Park Service this week awarded a ...

It’s one thing to read about a Civil War battle, but it’s entirely different to step onto the actual terrain, says author David T. Gilbert. His new book Civil War Battlefields: Walking the ...

The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege -- threatened by a 120-foot cell-phone tower, says a preservation group. The vast field in western Maryland is where the ...

Journal Star entertainment writer L. Kent Wolgamott offers these 10 films as his top selections among the many available related to the Civil War: 1. The Civil War. Ken Burns' epic 9-part 1989 PBS ...

Plans for a casino just outside Gettysburg were shot down last year, but the site of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle is threatened by spreading home construction, a preservation group said ...

The Battlefield Restoration Grants funds to restore “day-of-battle” conditions at battlefields and historic sites associated with the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

A foundation has been created to work with local governments, businesses and residents in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to preserve 10 Civil War battlefields in what is now mostly open farmland ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. An estimated 620,000 men – including an unknown number of women – fighting for the Union and the Confederacy were killed, about 2% ...