The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered more losses in battle than the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops ...

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause. They would be welcomed, the Proclamation declared, "into the armed ...

Civil War armies included infantry, cavalry and supply trains. But artillery batteries were, pound for pound, a treasured ...

The Boonsboro Historical Society will host a talk on Civil War artillery on Tuesday, March 25. According to a community announcement, James A. Rosebrock will discuss the organization of light ...