The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

Soldier's graves in Virginia. Courtesy ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily only because the Union's overwhelming advantages ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these ...

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore ... the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of the Potomac River, was a refuge for Union and Confederate soldiers throughout the war.

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... and Saltville and Petersburg, both in Virginia. Still, through all of the madness of war, children remained children.

Cashier’s fellow soldiers — crusty old Civil War veterans — stepped in to defend ... to remember me by,” she wrote from Alexandria, Virginia, on Feb. 20, 1863. Wike, the author, has ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

The 300-acre site that is the home of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War at New Market Battlefield State Historical Park not only features the battlefield and museum. It ...