In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

Rally against Confederate flag; Deng Xiaoping reinstated; Soviet Union boycotts UN; imperialist powers fight over China ...

GETTYSBURG — A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran ... cover — which shows a flag issued by the commonwealth to the 53rd Pennsylvania Regiment at the end of the war. Richards, a licensed ...

PETER LAZENBY reports on how trade unionists in Manchester are to celebrate the role of the city’s cotton industry workers in ...

Perhaps most compelling is the story of Thomas Bailey Aumack, a Bayshore native who was 17 years old when he enlisted to ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy ... peoples during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1861, Confederate troops invaded New Mexico from ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. In 1920 ...

a Bayshore native who was 17 years old when he enlisted to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He was mustered into the 87th New York Infantry in November of 1861, was wounded in the bloody ...

If Donald Trump seizes the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, perhaps Glenn Youngkin should go after West Virginia.

US flags, “Stop the Steal,” and the Virginia state motto are finding a home in a political battle halfway around the world ...