Horace Safford Brown’s monitor, the USS Nahant, saw action for the first time on March 3, 1863. Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont ordered the South Atlantic Fleet’s newest ironclads to test their guns ...

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The National Civil War Museum is in the midst of what it hopes will be a fruitful, but costly, undertaking. An estimated $1.25 million is set to go into preserving and ...

Uncover the untold stories of the Battle of Pinhook Bridge and Battle of Bayou Vermilion during the Civil War in Lafayette.

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Take a virtual tour of Gettysburg Battlefield and relive one of history’s pivotal battles. Explore key sites, monuments, and landmarks that shaped the Civil War, perfect for history enthusiasts and ...

Second Lt. Walter Thorn, who served with Company G of the 116th U.S. Colored Troops, recently was remembered at Henricus Historical Park. The Civil War Sesquicentennial event, held on Jan. 19, aimed ...

It is a historic coincidence that Dahlgren's 12-inch/35-caliber M1918 railroad gun was transferred to Ft. Lee's U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, located near a Civil War battlefield that saw one of the ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across every corner of the state. In Southeast Missouri, close to the vital ...

DECATUR -- The Macon County History Museum, 5580 North Fork Road, Decatur, will feature guest speaker Don Chamberlain for his program titled “Stories of Civil War Iron Clads” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, $2 ...

For the past century, a row of military graves in Tacoma’s Oakwood Hill Cemetery has been conspicuously gap toothed. Only a patch of grass has marked the final resting place of David Franklin, ...