Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America. It still holds several notorious records, such as the highest number of average deaths per day (504). Read more of ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Men in service took pride in what their flag meant, whether it symbolized their particular corps or the larger intentions of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other ...

The three-day Civil War battle was a badly needed win for the ... The Freedmen’s Bureau Project records are now digitized and available on Ancestry.com, providing millions of African Americans ...

The United Nations and human rights organizations have faced challenges in counting all those killed and missing in the ...

His extensive body of work includes The Irish in the American Civil War (2014), The Forgotten Irish ... from pension files to military records, shedding light on the lives of Irish emigrants ...

Records showed when Sandy died ... telling them of their family's connections to the farm – and their belief that a Civil War ...

historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil War. Because records for such deaths in the South were inaccurate, historians counted war deaths in the North and simply ...