In rocky tombs, formed millions of years before Gettysburg, rested the fossilized remains of a riotous wonder of life that ...

The USS Antietam was recognized for its more than 37 years of naval service during a decommissioning ceremony in Hawaii.

Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam revealed just how bad they were. Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S ...

The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War," he tells the story of these two brothers who witnessed and made history by fighting in the Peninsula Campaign, then at South Mountain, Antietam ...

Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted a quarter-century to collecting photographs from the experience that freed ...

Franklin VanValkenburg of Broadway stands in a suttlers' area on Friday as he awaits the start of the 160th anniversary ...

It is entirely logical that people are the primary focus in “A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World ... McPherson by all students of the Civil War.” In 1983 Sears wrote ...

The Civil War's Battle of Spotsylvania Court House saw the most sustained hand-to-hand combat of the war and ranks as its ...

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...

Here’s how it works. If you're going into Civil War hoping for a wild story about why the nation is divided and the President of the United States hasn't given an interview in 14 months ...