A park that was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of Hanover has a new name, in honor of the Union soldiers that ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

In January 1865, Company E of the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry—a unit of formerly enslaved men who joined the Union Army during the Civil War—was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas. The Company ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

"Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History," by Howell Raines, (Crown Publishers: New York), $36.00 hardcover.

On Jan. 21, the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Henry Casey Camp 92 Commander Kelly Hopkins donated on behalf of the camp, a model 1860 Light Cavalry Sabre and scabbard dated 1864 ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

known as the first battle of the civil war on free soil. On the morning of June 30, 1863, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry first clashed with the rear guard of Union General H.