“War, civil war, with all its horrors ... which saw more than 22,000 soldiers killed, wounded or captured in battle near Sharpsburg, Maryland, the private buried the woman under the shadow ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

In a later battle, almost all the men of the 16th ... 1860s Americans through too contemporary a lens. As a rule, Civil War soldiers were more religious than Americans today, more imbued with ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

In this blog post, Jabour explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War. 'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil ...

Stunt coordinator Cory DeMeyers breaks down the Civil War battle that opened season 4 and explains how it was designed to ...

Others were found to have fought in the Battle of Gettysburg ... After reading about the discovery of 28 Civil War soldiers’ ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Not long after, a young Confederate soldier—having joined ... Cook had virtually no interest in the Civil War until 1987, when she toured the battle site at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than ... They tended wounded soldiers and watched them die. When the battles ended their homes and farms were often in ruins.

Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers ... quantify the Civil War’s staggering ...