American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces. They represent what ... Some reflect the pageantry and pride imbued in uniforms or ...

The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the ... was a refuge for Union and Confederate soldiers throughout the war. All were welcome to pay their respects to the father of the ...

almost sacred boundaries of American civil-military relations and refused to fight a lost war any longer.” On the other hand, the Union high command needed not only to defeat the Confederate ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... Hospitals routinely took both Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties were ...