This illustration by Steve Jenkins portrays Emma Rankin grabbing the reins of a Union cavalryman as she protects the Carson House, where s...

 History has given us conflicting accounts of the death of Jacob Mast Councill, the Boone civilian who was one of the first casualties of St...

Union private Oliver Stebbins  The Civil War was nearly over when John and Charlotte Stebbins of Three Rivers, Michigan, sent their o...

  This is not the first time a new president has needed a history lesson on the Civil War.  It also happened in May 1865, when the war was...

This marker was erected Jan. 19, 1988 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They p robabl y didn't mean to celebrate a Yankee birthday...

 Four days before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, North Carolina held a statewide referendum to decide whether to secede from the Union...

Stoneman's 1st Brigade probably visited the Scruggs homeplace on the Cowpens Battlefield COWPENS, S.C.   Americans are notoriou...

Civ il War veterans clad in gray and blue meet across a rock wall  on Cemetery Ridge d uring the 75th anniversary of the B attle  of ...

FLAG POND, Tenn.   One cold winter night in 1947, Anderson Moore was on his way to bed when he s tumbled and fel l . For the next five we...

Della Barnes' truncated statue PADUCAH, Ky.  Della Barnes was a heartbreaker. One man gave her an expensive engagement ring, but s...