For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised to place a union soldier statue at the historic courthouse. Officials say ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

Since then he figures he has read four books on ... a resource from the state of Minnesota that lists all soldiers who fought in the war, so footnotes add another incredible layer of information ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

The program will hear from the personal journal of Lee, Goss’s great-grandfather, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Lee was responsible for procuring food and supplies for Union soldiers.

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...