Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic ... (the initial adoption of steel, embrace of the telegraph, use of coal as fuel, opening of ...

Wilson were two members of a team of Union soldiers who were captured and executed after taking part in a daring Civil War mission behind ... Confederate railways and telegraph lines from Georgia ...

which the White House describes as one of the first special operations in United States history, if successful, would have shortened the Civil War by as long as two years. "I mean these were ...

Davis does living history presentation on the Georgia African Brigade, three Black Union regiments that organized in Macon during the Civil War. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph Standing in a wool ...