One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War ... and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war.

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Men in service ... larger intentions of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other flags directly represented the two warring factions. This section displays objects that ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

A Virginia-based military contractor that supplied interrogators to the Army at a notorious prison was found liable for the ...

After the Civil War, there was a burial commission that the Union Army set up and they would go to battlefields. Well, they didn't take the time to find these men. Was it 'cause these guys were Black?

Harriet Tubman, famed for her role in the Underground Railroad, is posthumously honored as a brigadier general by Maryland's ...

However he could not avoid a civil war ... Army. Trotsky imposed tough discipline and control over the Red Army. Officers found guilty of cowardice or treachery were executed. However, men ...

The war in Sudan is entering a new phase as the Sudanese army and its rival ... sexual violence and randomly rounded up and ...

Free State of Jones, the Civil War thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Mahershala Ali, was quietly added to Netflix on ...