Of the nearly 2.7 million servicemembers who joined the United States military to fight for the Union during the American Civil War, Major George Washington “G.W.” Rue had a unique claim to fame.

(CNN) — Two Union soldiers from the American Civil War were posthumously awarded with the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, more than 160 years after being executed for their part in ...

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from The War Between, the upcoming Western drama that hails from director Deborah ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archeologists working for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation discovered the remains of four Confederate soldiers. The crew was excavating a site ...

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...

This video looks at what became of the Confederates after the Civil War ended in 1865. From the surrender at Appomattox to ...

Herschell Gordon Lewis’ gore epic concerns a group of murderous Southerners who lure six amorously intentioned tourists to their Civil War-era town, which is celebrating its centenary. On this ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

President Abraham Lincoln visited the U.S. Naval Observatory in August 1863, observing the Moon and Arcturus with astronomer Asaph Hall, seeking respite from the Civil War. The Great Comet of 1861 and ...