After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of ...

The wounded soldiers above were photographed ... amid growing awareness of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder. A year ago, the National Museum of Civil War Medicine mounted its first ...

Army photo/Screenshot from ‘Glory’ A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as ... and carried it back to Union lines as the 54th retreated.

The Civil War was a violent conflict, but cannonballs and rifles weren't the only dangers soldiers faced. Illness and disease, compounded by poor nutrition, accounted for more than half of all deaths.

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...