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 ...

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.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, heralded the victory of the Union and Republican President Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln did not live to see the ...

Fort Devens was named in honor of Brevet Major General Charles Devens, a Massachusetts son who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The Garrison exists to support military training and ...

By Raja Abdulrahim Syrian opposition fighters have made their most significant advance in years against government forces, shaking up a civil war that had ... Guards force to bases and front ...