Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

according to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Ether had made its way into medicine as a general anesthetic in 1846, with chloroform arriving the very next year. American military doctors ...

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

The brave service members from Lowell who gave their life defending the country since the American Civil War in 1861 were ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... I found roughly 70 violent incidents in the 30 years before the Civil War—and very often the incidents featured a Southerner trying ...