From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

A 1938 Southeast Missourian article recalls Cape Girardeau County's once-busy Civil War veterans' posts, the few surviving ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

Medicine on the battlefield has always been inspired by urgency and improvisation, and the American Civil War highlights just how much human courage contributed to advancements.

During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield ...

The Gettysburg Gun is instantly recognizable by the cannonball stuck in its muzzle.

Would an army with excellent captains and mediocre generals be better than one with a brilliant general and crummy captains? The Department of Data looks to the Civil War for answers.

"I Have no doubt you will see this through" Prime Video has revealed their first official trailer for a series called The Gray House, set during the US Civil War in the 1800s. Based on a true story, ...