When you think of the Civil War, you might think of Gettysburg and hard-fought battles, but what about cats? Civil War Tails museum, located at 785 Baltimore St. in Gettysburg, ties all of that ...

Two recent surveys – one from the The Economist and YouGov and the other from the medical research distributor medRvix – suggest that as many as four in ten Americans believe a civil war in this ...

How much did the equipment carried by an American soldier change between the Civil War and World War II? This video compares ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In the annals of American history, there are battles that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of Jones" ...

The Civil War was one of the deadliest conflicts in United States history, with over 10,000 battles between 1861 and 1865. From Vermont to as far away as Arizona, Union and Confederate soldiers would ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Richard Hatcher, a National Park Service Historian, provides an overview of the history of Fort Sumter and a summary of the battle that started the ...

One hundred sixty years ago, a series of battles and engagements in Virginia between the Rapidan and James Rivers determined the outcome of America’s Civil War. It is known as the Overland Campaign, ...

A Civil War volunteer infantry unit from Wisconsin adopted an eaglet, named it Old Abe and took it into battle.