The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered more losses in battle than the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment.
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. Several years ago, volunteers with the Missing in ...
At Secretary Davis’s insistence, the new infantry units were armed with percussion ... responsible for management of the Union Army during the Civil War.6 Increasing tension was soon becoming ...
The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...
Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...