For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt's most notable firearms: the 1860 Army revolver.

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Wayne Stewart, the author of "Generations of Texas: Ten Generations of Texas Family History," will speak about his ancestor’s experiences as a Texan fighting in the Union Army on Aug. 3 at the Allen ...

Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, who fought for the Union army during the Civil War, stands in uniform for a photo. Heritage Images/ Hulton Archive As Southern states tear down Confederate statues and the ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

Two months after the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the Union Army of the Cumberland under the command of Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of the Tennessee under Gen.

President Biden will on Wednesday posthumously award the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who pirated a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and then drove it 87 miles ...

Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...