AP Photo/Alexander Gardner / U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, wearing top hat, is shown with Union Army Gen. George B. McClellan, facing Lincoln, and McClellan’s staff at Antietam, Maryland, in 1862 ...
This display at West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling depicts historic action taken in the third floor courtroom of the building back in 1861. The Wheeling Conventions led to West Virginia ...
The Associated Press / Parade participants march and perform near the National Mall along Constitution Avenue in Washington to commemorate Memorial Day, coinciding with the nation’s 250th anniversary ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions ...
Re-enactors of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment stand at attention in the Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, September 10, 1996, during a ceremony to ...