Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

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This in turn helped drive many resisters into the Union army, where some of them became the core of the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A. Just as the title says, this group played a distinctive role ...

The Union Army of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, consists of seven infantry corps, a cavalry corps, and an Artillery Reserve, for a combined strength of more than 100,000 men.

Yet over 150 years ago, right here in our own backyard, Colonel John Singleton Mosby, a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander nicknamed the "Gray Ghost," used similar guerrilla tactics to ...

They made the decision not to collect the service records of an estimated 3,000 White Alabamians who enlisted in the Union Army after it occupied Huntsville, Ala., in 1862.

Grant led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War, and accepted the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. He was made full general in 1866, and was elected U.S ...

Editor's note: The Times columnist and Investigative Editor Marc Chase is portraying a 19th century journalist at the 150th anniversary of the surrender that effectively ended the Civil War in ...

The battle also led to the wounding of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who was shot by his own men after being mistaken for Union cavalry. He died a week after the battle.