Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Now, many years after her death, Tubman is officially a one-star brigadier general, according to The Associated Press.

After the Civil War, men returning to Exeter tried their best to get back to work and raise a family. Here are a few of their ...

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

The post-Civil War era was brought to life Saturday by actors portraying ... than the hardtack the Civil War soldiers often ate during the war. Doug Ross is a freelance reporter for the Post ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated ... underwent the hardships of service all soldiers ...

Every combat veteran must face the future while trying to forget the past. After the Civil War, men returning to Exeter tried their best to get back to work and raise a family. Frank Hervey served ...