To fill in the gaps in Nelson Shephard’s biography, Lynch enlisted the help of Steve Kochersperger, a USPS research analyst with a personal stake in the Civil War. An ancestor, Lt. Col.

A weekend getaway or a day trip from nearby Washington, D.C, Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA, or Harrisburg, PA to Winchester, VA, are all within a […] ...

Some of the memorials to the Confederacy and its leaders found in metro Atlanta's public (and some private) spaces ...

He had taken command of the men who had earned immortality as Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry ... his state to stay out of the spreading civil war. Union military authorities ordered his ...

After pleading guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights in a separate ... a homicide by a medical examiner. The Art of Dialogue reposted a clip of Jackson’s appearance on “One on One ...

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

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...