With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

A Civil War-era projectile has been discovered on a Manassas historic site celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. City ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The kiln provides “a connection with people in the past. They created the bricks with their hands,” says archaeologist ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

The Scotts eventually lost their case in the U.S. Supreme Court, starting a national conversation that helped lead to the Civil War. Virginia Minor ... built from 1839 to 1862, is one of the ...

Lisa Elmaleh In May 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls ... After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina, opened a general store ...

The Stone House (photo circa—1862) is one of three wartime structures present ... Join correspondent Tom Wilmer reporting from Northern Virginia at Civil War Battlefield Manassas/Bull Run. On July 21, ...