Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and bayonets,” killing a man known as Galloway or Gallaway, according to ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

The Ellsworth Public School went into lock-out mode about an hour before the school day ended Tuesday out of an abundance of ...

"We really want to build a library for the next generation.” Leaders haven't finalized a plan yet but said the cost is expected to reach $5 million.

"Our neighbours had no charity for our people when we were in trouble, and labouring night and day to save the country from ...

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Elmer Ellsworth (unknown artist, after Matthew Brady photograph), in 150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth exhibit, National Portrait Gallery, April 29, 2011 – March 18, 2012 ...

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