Object Details Description Physical Description Small metal box to protect matches, two-piece lantern, metal frying pan, and cup. Hardtack. General History A match safe, lantern, frying pan, and cup ...

Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp' It is often falsely claimed that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year" of the ...

Fort Ward, the best preserved of the system of Union forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, brought that history to life with its annual Civil War Camp Day ...

Every soldier fears dying in combat. But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps. How ...

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.

Camp Blair was a rendezvous point for new Michigan Union Army recruits and a discharging station for soldiers after the war.

The total number of estimated Confederate prisoner deaths at Camp Douglas during the Civil War ranges from 4,243 to 7,000.

Members of the Taylor-Wilson Camp #10 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War hosted the dedication ceremony Sunday.

LANCASTER − The Civil War ended in 1865. But a local group is making sure people of today remember it and are educated about it. While the 12-member William McKinley Camp 21 group does partake ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.