Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

The Civil War must have been a confusing time for Native Americans. Pushed from the east and relegated to Indian Territory, ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

After the Civil War millions of freed Black people ... employing the refugees as woodchoppers and in general fatigue labor for the army at Union camps in order to free white soldiers for fighting.

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

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.