He ran away from home at just 13 to join the war and, now, more than 100 years later, the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War are honoring his service as a wartime drummer boy. The Sons of ...

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the U.S. Civil War, a survivor of that fight marched 200 miles (320 km) from Pittsburgh to the site of the battle ...

Reedsburg Public Library will host Historian Bill Schuette and Sauk County Historical Society Executive Director Paul Wolter as they present a program on Sauk County’s own Civil War drummer boys at 6 ...

During the Civil War, drummers and buglers were allowed to enlist in the army without meeting the 18-year-old minimum age requirement for a combat soldier. Some estimates noted that 100,000 boys ...

A battle is brewing over whether to rename an elementary school after a Brooklyn boy who was killed in the Civil War.The Doris L. Cohen School/P.S. 230 is currently named after a longtime education ...