Union cavalry pursued him to the Garrett farm, burned down the barn to flush Booth out, then, as he rushed out, killed him with a bullet to the neck. An impressionable and dull-witted pharmacy ...

Then west some more. Such were the uncertain beginnings of what became the West Point Route. Construction began on the banks ...

Dots represent cavalry patrols (in this case, Union cavalry since they are blue in color). These usually represent lightly guarded flanks of an army or forward scouts. The different colors on the ...

Union officers had failed to create a plan for ... Saltville on October 2 were soldiers of the 5th United States Colored Cavalry. Fighting with white soldiers from the 11th Michigan and 12th ...

many of them joined the Union Army and resisted with arms. Shockingly to many in the South, more than 2,000 of them ...

“The Sons of Union Veterans is honoring people who were ... boy and later transferred to Company I, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, fighting with that unit through the Battle of the Wilderness ...

MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and ...

The region of Thrace in northeastern Greece is a place deeply rooted in history and a melting pot of civilisations and ...

The astonishing sight of rider-less Household Cavalry horses galloping through central London on Wednesday caused alarm and concern. Four runaway horses were alarmed by a loud noise, it was later ...

Not many competitions test a teenage girl’s skills the way the Colonel’s Daughter tradition does at the Fort Verde State Park ...

Senate Republicans are unexpectedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in one of the nation’s most conservative states ...

All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs. Although there is no official legal evidence that dogs were killed for being witches, it’s clear that there were strong associations ...