In a video clip from the 1930s, old Confederate soldiers step up to a microphone and let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell." From "The Rebel's Yell," Courtesy ...

A 1938 Southeast Missourian article recalls Cape Girardeau County's once-busy Civil War veterans' posts, the few surviving ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

Beneath the grass at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, the graves of several soldiers have long sat unmarked. Over a period of months, local volunteer Wayne Haddock cross-referenced military service ...

Aug. 24—Four days after the Confederate army bombed Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., that launched the American Civil War on April 12, 1861, 18-year-old Sylvester Dana Rhodes of Plains Township ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Iowa is a long way from the major battlefields of the Civil War. But, more than 76,000 Iowans served in the Union army. That was a substantial portion of the state’s population ...

A book by Sunbury native John P. Deeben features an anthology of soldier letters written specifically for publication in two local Northumberland County newspapers. Volumes One and Two of “Well and ...

A Blount County resident is raising money to reinstall the tombstone of a near-forgotten Civil War veteran after he found the original marker being auctioned off in Roane County. “I belong to the Sons ...

Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to join the 2nd Michigan Infantry's Company F, known as the Flint Union Greys.