Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

A new open letter has been published in France warning of the threat of civil war and claiming to have ... said to be issued anonymously by soldiers and appealing for public support.

Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the ...

Each of the students in the class has been tasked with researching four to five soldiers to learn more about their life before and after the Civil War. Plummer said 70 men enlisting in the USCT ...

flew as a battle flag in a Union Regiment during the Civil War. Many of the soldiers, the Mishawaka soldiers served with General Sherman from the March to Atlanta and beyond." says Lentsch.