The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled with Union troops, many of them from the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry, on a mission to strike Confederate plantations. There to guide them ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

By 1863, there was a food shortage ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same ...

In an era when the American Civil War dominated headlines, an English sheep farmer in New Zealand penned a letter that would prove remarkably prophetic. On June 13, 1863, The Press newspaper of ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.