Buffalo Coat According to legend, this coat was made from the skin of a buffalo killed by Buffalo Bill, and presented by him ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Discover the unique aspects of the American Civil War, including the recruitment of companies of men from the same community.

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... 14 th Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, who received an “accidental wound” of the phalangeal ...

On both sides, the Civil ... war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or presented to the leaders of ...

Harrel opens with a look at the American Civil War, in which cavalry several times secured important operational results (e.g., Grant’s first Vicksburg campaign). Some Russian soldiers combined this ...

Sweating through the thick wool of their uniforms, the Confederates split to protect their left flank against the threat of cavalry ... uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted ...

Indeed, the Civil War is rarely out of the news ... Reuters Fort Hood, in Texas, houses the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division Among all American institutions, the US military has been one of the ...

The Battle of Droop Mountain during the Civil War was an infamous and bloody mark on the history of a newly formed state.

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry ...

Eventually the 17th Illinois Cavalry rescued Ewing's troops ... a flier for the program stated. "But the American Civil War in Missouri uniquely destroyed the social fabric of everyday life ...

The Rock Island National Cemetery will have a Veterans Day ceremony at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, at Committal Shelter 2, ...