Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an effective hospital system that threaded the wounded and diseased through a ...

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lea U.S.N.-Camp Number 2 hosted a commemoration ceremony at ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a ...

Both dismemberment during battle and decay on the battlefield during the often-lengthy interval between death and recovery challenged Civil War-era Americans’ ideas about the “good death.” ...

Railroad barons, gargantuan East Coast mansions and elaborate galas are all synonymous with the Gilded Age – a period of US history after the Civil War that saw rapid industrial development and ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...