When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... at way stations such as City Point. By war’s end, there were 204 Union general hospitals with 136,894 beds.

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short ... that the farmers of Liberia could bolster the Union war effort. Mercifully for Union generals, President Abraham Lincoln officially ...

The Civil War had begun ... Some did, but the vast majority crossed Union lines as soon as Northern troops entered their vicinity. A Confederate general stated in 1862 that North Carolina was ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...

And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and ...