The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

A park ranger for Fort Harrison in Henrico didn't know his acting experience would come into play when he started the job.

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.

Penn Township resident Bill Bray has made it his mission to ensure the Civil War veterans buried in Westmoreland County are ...

At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

The Clarksburg History Museum took people back to the most tumultuous time in United States history during its Civil War ...