New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which sits in Alton Cemetery. The ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Lockport’s Military History Weekend includes a veterans hospitality tent both days with free lunch and beverages for veterans.

Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War. By Kevin Braafladt March 10, 2025 ...

Gaza's civil defence agency on Tuesday said that 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory ...

Historic legislation that paved the way for women in the armed forces is turning 75, but an earlier chapter is crucial to understanding our past.

An unexploded artillery shell was discovered at Gettysburg National Military Park on Feb. 8, host to one of the bloodiest but most decisive battles of the Civil War. Explosive Ordnance Disposal ...

The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force.

Civil War veteran John D. Billings, who served in the 10th Massachusetts Battery, wrote in his memoir Hardtack and Coffee about how important the coffee ration was to the average Union soldier.

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg, among ...

Charles Pomeroy Stone served as the statue’s chief engineer, and in that capacity, he was in charge of overseeing shipments, construction and the process of attaching Lady Liberty to its pedestal.