While exploring the woods with a metal detector, I discovered seven Civil War bullets, which may have been used during ...
When Confederate forces opened fire April 12, 1861, on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., it signaled the start of the Civil War. “President Abraham Lincoln recognized Washington, D.C., lay vulnerable ...
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - With 250,000 visitors expected to converge on the Gettysburg battlefields this week, historians and antiquarians say the 150th anniversary of the clash that ...
MARION, Va. (WCYB) — The Smyth County Museum recently got a piece of local history more than 150 years old. The restored Civil War uniform belonged to John Montgomery Preston who was a Marion resident ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month.