While most people picture infantry lines and battlefield charges, the Civil War’s naval battles were just as critical.

Horace Safford Brown’s monitor, the USS Nahant, saw action for the first time on March 3, 1863. Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont ordered the South Atlantic Fleet’s newest ironclads to test their guns ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s surrender ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The National Civil War Museum is in the midst of what it hopes will be a fruitful, but costly, undertaking. An estimated $1.25 million is set to go into preserving and ...

DECATUR -- The Macon County History Museum, 5580 North Fork Road, Decatur, will feature guest speaker Don Chamberlain for his program titled “Stories of Civil War Iron Clads” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, $2 ...

For the past century, a row of military graves in Tacoma’s Oakwood Hill Cemetery has been conspicuously gap toothed. Only a patch of grass has marked the final resting place of David Franklin, ...

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