Capt. Hugh P. Boon of Pennsylvania served in the U.S. Army from 1861 to 1865. His descendants recently gave his Medal of Honor to Bill Given.

More than 150 years after the first regiments of Buffalo Soldiers were formed, a bipartisan pair of senators is looking to ...

Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...

Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress George Atzerodt’s failed assassination of Andrew Johnson One man’s cowardice saved a ...