ORLANDO, Fla. — This month, we’re celebrating Harriet Tubman’s historic legacy as part of Black History Month. Her courageous escape from slavery and her versatile service in the Union Army during the ...

Among the Canadians who joined the Yankee army to were two young men from Elora, William Godfrey and Charles Guinnette. Only ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ... of my ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 14, 1861. Abraham Lincoln orders Union reinforcements sent to Missouri after a Confederate victory at the Battle of Wilson Creek. The Show-Me State was important to ...

At the end of the Civil War, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to establish a base of operations for his occupying troops, and soon after, he read General Order No. 3 at a ...