Nearly 100 years after the Civil War began, its last surviving veteran, Albert Woolson, passed away in Duluth, at age 106.

VALPARAISO | Jacob Mooker spent many of his last years regaling locals with stories of the Civil War from a bench on the Porter County Courthouse lawn. The German immigrant -- the last Civil War ...

"The controversy surrounding the Civil War Monument has become a symbol of Coloradans’ struggle to understand and take ...

The Final Salute for a Union Civil War veteran who died in Des Moines nearly 100 years ago got even better after he was ...

The soldiers, who were farmers, served in the 20th and 26th regiments of the United States Colored Troops and survived the ...

VALPARAISO -- Conspiracy theories persisted for decades that the man who killed the president had escaped. But when Union soldiers tracked down and shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin in a rural Virginia ...

Charles Hopkins aided escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad and survived a notorious POW camp. He was one of nine ...

In a video clip from the 1930s, old Confederate soldiers step up to a microphone and let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell." From "The Rebel's Yell," Courtesy ...