Last Civil War Union veteran buried in Osceola County Michigan, Oren Button, honored in ceremony at Forest Hill Cemetery in ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...

Burnside, newly appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac in November 1862. Burnside hoped to cross through Fredericksburg on a path to take the Confederate ... under heavy rifle fire from ...

Confederate artillery and rifle fire inflicted heavy Union casualties ... And it was quickly rendered obsolete by military realities. In 1862 lawmakers tried again, imposing a 3% tax on personal ...

Of all the schisms that cleave contemporary America, few are more stark than the divide between those who consider themselves ...

The first national cemeteries were established during the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln ... for mourners on a cold day or having a rifle squad — or low scores, like how long it ...

The assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump point to continuity rather than a shockingly unexpected turn in American politics.

Most went to units from Ohio. In 1862, Joslyn received an order for 20,000 carbines. Delivery on these weapons started in 1863, but by the time the Civil War came to an end only about half of these ...

Couthouy, was mortally wounded by rifle fire on 3 April. From 22 May 1864 until 26 May 1865 she lay off Fort Adams, Mississippi, on 8 June 1864 assisting in the capture of a Confederate battery at ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the ...