The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

In the years leading up to the Civil War Meigs also supervised additions ... issues in the vast west which added two new regiments of cavalry and infantry each, as well as embracing new ...

He then joined the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry — already in the field ... dating from as early as the Revolutionary War. Williams is one of six veterans whose exploits he’s written ...