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Jul 3, 2024 · President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Wednesday to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines.
Jul 3, 2024 · President Biden on Wednesday presented the Medal of Honor to the descendants of Pvts. Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson, soldiers in the Union Army who took part in the Great Locomotive ...
1 day ago · A scholar of political assassinations says the US just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
Jun 19, 2024 · Latest news, headlines, analysis, photos and videos on Civil War.
Jan 11, 2022 · The American Civil War cost the lives of at least 600,000 Americans and contributed to the deaths of many thousands more. It devastated the South economically and left most of those in the...
Aug 24, 2023 · Graves containing the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers and three amputated human legs are the latest discoveries to come out of an archaeological excavation at a 161-year-old battle...
Dec 21, 2022 · The debate over whether America is on an irreversible path to division and breakup like the one that led the country to war in 1861 raises an obvious question: Was the Civil War preventable?
Apr 28, 2024 · Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War.
Jun 6, 2024 · Unless the fighting stops soon, Sudan could be hit by a devastating famine affecting millions of people, United Nations officials warn. But there is little prospect of the conflict ending any...
Jan 11, 2022 · Widespread armed conflict unlikely, but nation still in danger zone, says political scientist. As the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol prepares for televised hearings later this month, public attitudes toward the attack are divided sharply along partisan lines.
