Many historians now point to that bloody night on Pottawatomie Creek as the first shots of what would become the American ...

In spring 1864, Union General Banks led 30,000 troops up the Red River toward Shreveport, the Confederate capital of ...

Patience Boston was born December 26, 1711, on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod. Her Nauset parents, John Samson and Sarah Jethro, ...

The Civil War left thousands of families in the dark about their loved ones. No one knew who lived or died until Clara Barton ...

Yet by 1862, they stood as foes at Fort Donelson, where Grant asked for “unconditional surrender” but still showed his old ...