This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...

HANOVER, Pa. — On Tuesday, June 30, 1863, Hanover, Pennsylvania celebrated as Union Brigadier General Kilpatrick's cavalry rolled through the city's streets. "Hanover's citizens were giving them beer, ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union cavalry at age 18 in September 1862. Greensburg resident Richard Barnard ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

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This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle. It will take place an hour south of Raleigh at ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across every corner of the state. In Southeast Missouri, close to the vital ...

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...