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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

MITCHELL — Hundreds of veterans, their friends and their families gathered at the Davison County Fairgrounds Monday during ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

Seiko Buckingham was an adult when she finally read her aunt Miné Okubo’s book about her experiences during the years she was ...

It was sad to think of all he’d been through in his life, and he didn’t even have a headstone,” said Kendall Peruzzini, 13.

A scout. A spy. A nurse. An advocate. These were just a few of the titles used to describe a renowned freedom fighter and former enslaved woman who ...

Fort Ward, the best preserved of the system of Union forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, brought that history to life with its annual Civil War Camp Day Sept.

Jeff Joyce, a retired Air Force major and son of an Air Force pilot, written more than 100 vignettes on the men and women fighting forces in hallowed ground.