Black Union soldiers who were part of the United States Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle near Simpsonville, ...

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

A New Orleans wine merchant and Black soldier, E. Arnold Bertonneau led the fight for Black men to have the right to vote.

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where they fought and where the fallen were buried.