Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a Civil War colonel uniform group, ca. 1863, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

On close examination, text beside the images explained that Union officer Gilluly had perished in the Civil War while “leading his troops in the disastrous Battle at Fredericksburg” on Dec. 13 ...

What Civil War soldiers wore certainly has told historians a lot about the war efforts at the time, said Michael Comer, director of the Hunter-Dawson House in New Madrid, Mo.

Yet many Americans at the outset of the Civil War just didn't share that same ... resisted Lincoln's attempts to compel them to fight the war for the Union. ... than 640,000 men in uniform.

Bidders will fight with their dollars next week for personal relics and a sword used by Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman at an auction house in Columbus, Ohio. The president of ...