The Fort Branch confederate museum is unsure how it will rebuild after the building, that housed seditious, memorabilia ...

Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War (1861-1865) was no exception. At their most basic level, Civil War uniforms ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

The American Civil ... the Civil War. Unlike commanders who focused solely on defeating armies, Sherman understood that breaking civilian support for the war would hasten Confederate defeat.

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Their immediate goal was to loot the town’s stores — stealing chickens, boots, hats, shoes, tobacco, biscuits, and whatever ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

It is always a pleasure for a museum to receive objects that can further explain the story of an artifact already in its collection. Years ago, before the Historical Society had even moved into its ...