During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war.

In the first part of this series, I credited small county historical museums for at times being as valuable as larger ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting ...

a Delaware County Regiment during the Civil War. The Regiment, which was organized into 10 companies, drilled at Camp Delaware located near Delhi, New York. It was sworn into Federal service on ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...

On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared ...

I read a novel that made several references to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. This conflict between the Dakota people and the white settlers consumed southwestern Minnesota for six ...

Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully ...

The Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable welcomes the public to an evening of American Civil War history Wednesday, Jan.