Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

These names had likely been left by Confederate soldiers during the opening months of the Civil War, said Smith, who with his dark, rough clothing and close-cropped white beard might have passed as a ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

Col. John Singleton Mosby, also known as the “Gray Ghost,” was the cavalry commander of a unit called “Mosby’s Rangers,” during the Civil War. The unit was known for its raiding and ...