Some people inherit IRAs, artwork, jewelry, or real estate from loved ones. But sometimes, an inheritance can bring up tricky ...

On the eve of the presidential election in November, I traveled with my wife and grandson to visit Gettysburg National ...

Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered in Munford, Alabama, over 150 years after his death. Lt. Buttram, who fell ...

"It was said during the American Civil War that there were more Confederate flags flying here than in Richmond, Virginia — and Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy," Westgaph told CNN.

Thomas Caute Reynolds, a native of South Carolina, became the lieutenant governor of Missouri before the Civil War. He was so dead-set on Missouri becoming a Confederate state that he ignored the ...

This weekend, more than 2,000 people will participate in the reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville on the 160th anniversary of this Civil War battle. It will take place an hour south of Raleigh at ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...