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

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates ... by sending his men across two miles of open ground without artillery support.

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... Virginia, surprising General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army, and proceed 35 miles to Richmond. General Burnside's campaign at ...

portrayed then-Major General Grant after the Uni… Historians discussed President Lincoln’s views on race and slavery. This was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War In… Civil War Round ...