Civil War

A potentially explosive situation was avoided at a Massachusetts home last week after a corroded metal ball was uncovered, only for a bomb squad to realize it was a cannonball, police said Thursday. The Civil War-era ordnance, about four inches across, was found by people who live at the home in Mansfield and called police on July 7, state police…

A lawyer for a father-son team of treasure hunters is accusing the FBI of either lying to a federal judge about having video of its 2018 dig for legendary Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroying the video. The FBI has acknowledged it was looking for gold at the Pennsylvania site but says it found nothing of value. The duo believes...

A Boston memorial to a famed Civil War unit made up of Black soldiers is being rededicated Wednesday after a three-year long restoration. Civic and military leaders were on hand for the ceremony at the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common overlooking the Massachusetts Statehouse. The towering bronze relief, which is considered the…

Originally established during the Civil War, Memorial Day honors those who have died in military service for the U.S.

Sedition, conspiracy. Those words are now being used in Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection criminal cases. But what do the terms mean, anyway?

Workers have removed the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Tennessee park, marking another step in the process of moving their bodies out of Memphis and to a museum hundreds of miles away

It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest

Maryland lawmakers have voted to repeal Maryland’s state song, which is a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy.

A bomb squad safely deactivated a live Civil War-era piece of ammunition after it was discovered in Maryland last week, NBC News reports.

A man convicted of stealing timber from century-old live oak trees at a Civil War battlefield near the Georgia-Tennessee line has been sentenced to about a year in prison.

A monument honoring a famed Civil War unit of Black soldiers has returned to downtown Boston, following a $3 million restoration. The bronze relief at the center the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial was hoisted back into place Wednesday on the Boston Common across from the Statehouse with the help of a crane. The relief remained wrapped…

To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing

In a story January 16, 2021, about Republican leaders invoking war rhetoric, The Associated Press incorrectly referred to an incoming chairwoman of the Michigan GOP