Today, the most interesting reminder of Daniel Sickles, a 19th-century Army general, might be his amputated leg bone, a cast of which is currently on loan at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

“Negotiating the Peace: Bowdoin Commemorates the End of the Civil War,” a two-day series of programming in observance of the 150th anniversary of the peace reached on April 9, 1865, is underway.

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...