In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

Dubbed the "Angel's Glow" by Civil War soldiers doctors reported that those with glowing wounds had lower infection rates and ...

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While these treasures from the past are for sale, every once in a while one appears that could be considered priceless. “Signed Abraham Lincoln letters have shown up,” said Bob Zurko of Zurko ...

NAZARETH, Pa. - A major donation is keeping history alive in Nazareth. The Jacobsburg Historical Society has received a donation of Civil War clothing and other articles that had belonged to ...

There was no plan for the dead during the American Civil War. Mass graves or leaving them where they fell would only go so ...