Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s call to arms at the start of the war on April ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

A move is afoot to have a historical marker erected in honor of a Pottsville man who was among the first volunteers to serve ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...