American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American ... 8th New York Heavy Artillery and the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Both of these regiments engaged in many of the same ...

W.C. Heinz, war correspondent for the New York Sun newspaper. "As we helped each other aboard the trucks, it never occurred to us why so many were being assigned to infantry. We were destined to ...

From New York state to Virginia and back to Cattaraugus County, the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag has a storied ...

Born in 1846, Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before moving to Irwin. He lived in the borough nearly six decades, working as borough tax collector from 1902 ...

The 103RD OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1862-65, was a Union, three-year regiment comprised of men from northeast Ohio during the CIVIL WAR. Within its ranks were approximately 460 men from ...