No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...

Since 2006, one of the country’s largest public exhibits of Civil War memorabilia found its home in a faux southern manor in White Settlement, a few hundred feet off Loop 820. Collin Jefferson stood ...

In 1936, civil war erupted in Spain between the elected Republican government and an insurrection calling themselves “Nationalists.” The Republicans were supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico while ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A centerpiece of the Civil War is hidden atop a hill in the Wedgewood-Houston area of Nashville. Fort Negley was extremely important as Union troops worked to control rivers, ...

GREENVILLE — Well, it’s not much to look at. But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — ...

In a historic ceremony held at the Beaverdam Conference Center, Fort A.P. Hill was officially re-designated to honor three extraordinary Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: Private Bruce Anderson, ...