Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year.

Johnson will be donning his Civil War-era uniform several times this summer, crisscrossing the state to mark the graves of the last Union soldier buried in a number of Minnesota counties.

Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase "War is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined ...

The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer’s Auctions on Thursday in Columbus. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are ...

An unknown Civil War soldier began his journey home to New York state Tuesday, ... 13 uniform buttons, ... Times Union photographers have been documenting the Capital Region’s fascinating ...