The animated map above shows how Union and Confederate markers accumulated over time and where. It also allows you to compare and contrast the language with which the two sections valorized their ...

Gary Lancaster leaned over the computer set out in Friendship Cemetery among clusters of land ... the Union soldiers are buried. For a more accurate map of that area — and the entire Confederate ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers ... Remains of 4 Confederate soldiers, amputated legs and gold coins found at a Civil War battlefield in Virginia A 1936 map shows the location ...

The cavalry officer dressed in Union blue certainly looked out of place as he laid a wreath before the Confederate Veterans Statue in Frederick's Mount Olivet cemetery. The occasion was ...

“Battle-Born” Nevada famously won statehood in 1864 to help preserve the Union, but it was the Confederacy that initially claimed the land now known as Clark County. Just don’t expect to ...

Villamore chooses the Union. "Because I think, since they say it's a free country, even the slaves should be free," he says. Luke Richardson chooses the Confederacy. "I just like fighting for my ...

As a servant to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, she spent nearly the entire Civil War passing information to a network of other Union spies throughout the rebel capital.