Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...

Scientists have uncovered a pit of human bones at a Civil War battlefield in Virginia. The remains are the amputated limbs of wounded Union soldiers. It's the first "limb pit" from a Civil War ...

July 1 marked 150 years since the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, a crucial victory for the Union and a turning point in the Civil War. But it came at an enormous cost to both sides — thousands ...

Town of Oswego native Dr. Mary Walker, a Civil War era surgeon who was once captured by Confederate troops will be honored by the United States Mint with a quarter featuring her image. The public is ...

The United States Mint is honoring an incredible Central New Yorker as part of its 2024 American Women Quarters Program. The U.S. Mint unveiled a design for a new quarter bearing the image of Dr. Mary ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax ...

JANESVILLE – “There are few citizens of Janesville that would be more generally missed,” Colonel J.A. Watrous, a Civil War veteran, wrote in the June 22, 1895 Janesville Gazette, reflecting on the ...

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