A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps ... they did try blasting them out of the sky during the Peninsula campaign.

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state.