Memorial Day was founded after the Civil War to honor those fallen Union soldiers and sailors who gave their lives to prevent the dismemberment of our nation and free those Black Americans kept in ...

In August 2020, I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which sits in Alton ...

The nation is divided by war yet linked at last from coast to coast by a transcontinental telegraph this week in 1861. For some time, the telegraph's eastern terminus only extended from the Atlantic ...

Lonnie Davis speaks during the 32nd Juneteenth Freedom Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Tattnall Square Park in Macon, Georgia. Davis does living history presentation on the Georgia African ...

Reprint of the 1882 ed. pub. by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago. Introd. (titled Union signal communications: innovation and conflict) is reprinted from Civil war ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...

The 1865 Richmond Civil War Era General Grant Celebratory Ribbon is a significant historical artifact from the closing chapter of the American Civil War.

The nation is divided by war yet linked at last from coast to coast by a transcontinental telegraph this week in 1861.