Saddle up! The Union Army was expanding its forces and the call was out for volunteers to serve in the Cavalry. Response was immediate, including many men from Foxborough, but even as they started to ...

MUDDY CREEK FORKS, Pa. (WHTM) Large-scale Civil War reenactments can be a lot of fun, but sometimes smaller events can give you a closer look at life in that era. On Sunday, July 23, The Ma & Pa ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

ROCKLAND − These memorable faces with their haunting, direct gazes might have been lost to history. But then Pamela Ryan found a book about them in a closet at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall. She ...

Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans photographed outside Sheffield Town Hall in the 1890s. William Jones is standing in the back row, the ...

For anyone serving in the Civil War, the risk of death or debilitating injury at the hands of the enemy was high and the casualty count continued to rise. And everywhere they served, the threat of ...