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. While Huntington does tell the story of Meade's life, he also provides first-person accounts of his visits to the battlefields where Meade fought and museums that cover the Civil War. He spoke with ...

Cats, clay, and Civil War history? As soon as I heard about the Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum in Gettysburg—where tiny clay cats bring key Civil War moments to life—I knew I had to ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. | A life-sized animatronic Abe Lincoln is among the historical figures and tableau scenes from a Gettysburg wax museum set to hit the auction block just months after the town ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — As re-enacted war raged several miles away, tourists strolled a commercial strip of Gettysburg to survey T-shirts, hats and other trinkets to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...