BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate Gen. Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family, and when ...

Today, the most interesting reminder of Daniel Sickles, a 19th-century Army general, might be his amputated leg bone, a cast ...

Photo Provided Scott Britton identifies the position of Rufus Dawes’ 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Culp’s Hill on July 2, 1863, during the Civil War Roundtable’s field trip to Gettysburg in 2014 ...

When the Civil War erupted in April 1981, Oglesby volunteered his services to Illinois Gov. Richard Yates within three hours of Lincoln's call for troops, Irwin said. Oglesby was appointed colonel of ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...

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The Luzerne County Historical Society will host the Confederation of Union Generals from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 at the Swetland Homestead, 885 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. The confederation will ...

For Americans, the first half of April should bring to mind a host of events. It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has voiced strong opposition to removing the names of Confederate generals from US military bases, repeatedly saying the ...

Ron Maxwell talks about the role his faith plays in his career and what attracts him to the generation of the 1860s. If you’ve seen many movie previews at the theater recently, you’ve probably heard ...

1. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, who found his successful generals in the Civil War through protracted and painful trial and error, Franklin D. Roosevelt required few trials and seldom made errors in his ...