The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

At Mercy Street’s Mansion House Union Hospital major surgical procedures of the Civil War are performed. Amputations are emphasized, as it was the most common major operation. The step-by-step ...

When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, thousands of men across the northern states were enlisted to fight for the Union ... a Bible, and a coat from General George Henry Gordon, who ...