160 years later, Civil War hero Nathan Allen is finally honored at Warden Cemetery

Newswatch 16's Valeria Quiñones spoke with Nathan Allen's great-great niece. She worked for 6 years to make sure her uncle is ...
Stars and Stripes

Dust off a Civil War classic, reissued 50 years after its first edition

They Met at Gettysburg” is a reissue that gives a general’s perspective to events leading up to the famous Civil War battle.
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

Civil War soldier’s letters to wife digitized for online viewing

More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online ...

Oak Ridge honors Civil War veteran Elijah Wood with trail marker

The ceremony will be a dedication of the new Elijah Wood Civil War Trails Marker. Wood was born into slavery in the area that ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Valpo Civil War officer's journals subject of new book, Chicago exhibit

Union Army Civil War re-enactors charge the enemy in April at the 150th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Region men were among the participants in one of the war's ...
Snopes.com

Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'

Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil ...