american civil war

Bradford’s 2025 Memorial Day parade will be held May 26. Lineup will begin between 9 and 9:30 a.m. on Davis Street. The parade will commence at 10 am....

In response to popular demand, Duke Center writer Bill Robertson has released a second edition of his work “The Bucktails' Last Call.” The book, origi...

BEGINNING: At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Un...

MACHIAS, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library has just released a new film detailing the remarkable history of one of its most si...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — Citizens Advocating Memorial Preservation (CAMP) will present Meet a Civil War Soldier from 2 to 4 p.m. on Veterans Day at the C...

HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. — Nestled along two converging rivers, with the Blue Ridge Mountains’ precipitous cliffs offering a backdrop, Harpers Ferry has ...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The Civil War battle of Spotsylvania Court House saw the most sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war and ranks as its third-...

KUDOS: We had to take a moment to pass along some well-deserved kudos earned by local members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Our own Marcie Schel...

MORE: Pennsylvania is proud of its state parks, as it should be. In 2009, our state park system was recognized as the best in the nation by the Nation...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive d...

Juneteenth is no more a holiday just for Black people than the Fourth of July is a holiday just for white people. It recognizes and celebrates a profo...

JUNETEENTH: The federal holiday of Juneteenth — June 19 — is America’s second independence day, the date when slavery ended in the U.S. The National M...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The University of Texas will move a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis away from the center of campus, but statues o...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — For nearly a century, an urn containing the ashes of a Civil War-era Medal of Honor recipient remained in an unmarked grave with othe...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers on Monday began debating whether to bring the Confederate flag down outside the Capitol, starting with ...

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with r...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate battle flag was still flying high atop a 30-foot pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Wednesday as lawm...

ATLANTA (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the Confederate battle flag that flies in front of her state's Capitol. But she has...