The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...
More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle and national history. One of the boldest examples is The ...
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — The sprawling city Murfreesboro was once a tiny town of about 3,000 people during one of the most consequential battles of the Civil War: the Battle of Stones River. The ...
PLEASANT HILL, La. — In the spring of 1864, northwest Louisiana became the center of one of the Civil War’s most ambitious and consequential Union offensives. Known as the Red River Campaign, the ...
John Copenhaver Jr., the longest-serving federal judge in history who worked for decades in southern West Virginia, has died. He was 100.Copenhaver, who served Defendant and family testifies as Mingo ...
Events commemorating the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of New Market will take place this weekend with a full lineup of tours, demonstrations, memorial ceremonies and living history programs planned ...