During the Revolutionary War, an estimated 25,000 American service members sacrificed their lives to gain independence from Great Britain. Less than a century later, the fight to preserve the country ...

Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states and ...

Civil War historian Ben Varner discussed the explosive history of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment recently at the Orwigsburg Historical Society. Explosive, indeed. Members of the unit, made up largely ...

Known as "Old Reliable," William Joseph Hardee was the first Confederate general sent at the outbreak of the Civil War to Arkansas, where he organized a number of regiments. Hardee was already a ...

In Virgina, Civil War buffs wince when Terry Rensel mentions family connections to the 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, recruited in Erie. "People wince because it was such a tough luck regiment," Rensel ...

In Illinois as elsewhere, Civil War troops came from a wide variety of occupations. In one regiment, many men were future teachers. The 33rd Illinois Infantry, which originated at Illinois State ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The team carefully ...

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