Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

During the U.S. Civil War, the two opposing sides had at least one thing in common -- a love for coffee. However, the North ...

Civil War uniforms worn by Union troops were all made of wool, with no apparent consideration for their use in warm weather. It was not unusual for soldiers to dress more casually while on ...

A 1916 reunion of Confederate Civil War veterans at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, (named for a Confederate general) was originally known as Camp Gordon.

Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War ...

Mastriano represents a central Pennsylvania Senate district that includes Gettysburg, the location of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, a decisive Union Army win over the Confederate Army in 1863.

On April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered. The decision to enlist slaves in the Confederate army was hotly debated at the time, and it continues to inspire debate about what that decision meant.

When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this ...

Two Civil War soldiers who infiltrated Confederate territory to steal a train and destroy the enemy railroad system were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday ...