Nearly 20 Medal of Honor recipients will ride a train following the same route as the Civil War's Great Locomotive Chase from ...

Juneteenth: The war's official end may have been marked by military surrender, but the abolition of slavery was formally proclaimed on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, a day now commemorated as ...

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...

Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil ...

Fort A.P. Hill was redesignated in 2023 as Fort Walker, in honor of the Civil War-era Medal of Honor recipient Dr. Mary E. Walker. The base will once again be Fort A.P. Hill following an order by ...

The re-designation of Fort A.P. Hill stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of Anderson, Pinn, and Hill, whose courage ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

A historian brings tales of battlefield innovation, sacrifice and resilience that helped shape modern medicine.