After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor Warmoth was a political pragmatist who created the biracial Metropolitan ...

New headstones honor Union Civil War veteran James Watkins and wife Letitia at their Walker County burial site.

Ed Wilson’s grandfather Sam Wilson fought for the South during the Civil War so it seemed fitting last Friday that his 60-acre property just across from Randolph Elementary School should serve as the ...

A new interactive map details the pensions awarded by the American government to Irish soldiers who fought in some of that country's biggest military campaigns — including the American Civil War, Cust ...

Local historian Mike Marotte shares the story of the Grand Army of the Republic, a club for Civil War veterans, and one of ...

Auction highlights: 30-inch-long solid gold nugget chain, US Cavalry model Colt Single Action Army revolver with period accessories, Ray "Crash" Corrigan's screen-used Bohlin saddle LAS VEGAS, Jan. 16 ...

The United States is a relatively young country, speaking in the grander scope of things. That said, it is a […] ...

Some salute defense secretary’s actions that he says will reawaken the military’s ‘warrior ethos’ — and others, not so much ...

We kayak the Flint River to Owens Island, where a Civil War skirmish took place in 1865 near the old Double Bridges crossing ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

These informal quarters of the city were named after Jacob Henry Wysor, a 19th-century Muncie landowner and businessman.