On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A depiction from the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. (Library of Congress) The uniform distinctions between the Union ...
The cavalry officer dressed in Union blue certainly looked out of place as he laid a wreath before the Confederate Veterans Statue in Frederick's Mount Olivet cemetery. The occasion was Confederate ...
Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain incomplete ...
How did the Union Defeat the Confederacy?
Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of one of the deadliest battles in U.S. history. The three-day ...
Roughly 160 years after the end of the Civil War, division among residents of the North and South lingers, according to researchers. Alauna Safarpour, a postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University ...
During the Civil War, Americans fought over what the Declaration truly meant. As the nation fractured, Americans turned to the Declaration of Independence for meaning. Union leaders like Lincoln saw ...
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove ...
July 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian town of Quebec. In 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, ...