The 1,200-ton ship CSS Georgia was built in 1862, armored with strips of railroad iron and never fired a shot in combat after it was built to defend the Georgia coast in the Civil War.

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., was born June 5, 1812, so after the Civil War ended in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war of that date.” William Kendall ...

On this spot: Two history buffs debunk the story of a famous Civil War photo. June 5, 2018. This photo of Confederate soldiers marching through Frederick, Md., was thought to have been taken in 1862.

A U.S. Postal Service dedication ceremony set for Saturday to celebrate a new series of Civil War stamps will feature a Pembroke man, who claims his family has ties to a famous photo from the 1863 ...

Civil War Soldier Photo. Download the Transcript. The Case: A Louisiana resident owns a Civil War photograph featuring a finely boned, slight-figured soldier.

Civil War Photo Sleuth puts the onus on the user to confirm the identity of a photograph with the help of facial recognition. Other users can then review work in a model that works like Wikipedia ...