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BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust's map of Jerusalem Plank Road on June 22, 1864

Born in approximately 1840 on the upper part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to Franco-Ottawa merchant-fur trader Henry Graveraet and his Ojibwe wife...

Fort Wagner, also known as Battery Wagner, was a sand and earthen fortification located on the northern end of Morris Island outside of Charleston...

The 54th Massachusetts was one of the first United States military regiment comprised of African American soldiers in the Union during the Civil War...

"We are lying low, and not a word is spoken above a whisper in our ranks,” recalled a member of the 49th Pennsylvania Infantry. “We see the duty we...

With more than 150,000 troops engaged and some 30,000 casualties inflicted during almost two weeks of combat, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...

This page describes the morning of June 1, 1864, during the Battle of Cold Harbor.

In May 1989, the fledgling Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (APCWS) scored its second-ever save when it formally took title to 1.5...

The 4th United States Infantry Regiment or "The Warriors" has served the United States for over 200 years on numerous battlefields around the world.

The sword of Robert Gould Shaw was recently discovered in a dusty attic. It is now on display in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

This article discusses the actions of Francis Barlow's Union division at Cold Harbor.

Union and Confederate soldiers had endured years of privations and pitched battles, yet nothing had prepared them for the fighting in the Mule Shoe...