DETROIT – One of the earliest monuments constructed to honor Civil War veterans in the country is in Detroit. In 1865, the year the war ended, Michigan Gov. Austin Blair began collecting funds to ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

James Hinds had come to Arkansas with high hopes after the Civil War. However, the congressman only found tragedy as he was assassinated in 1868.