Despite that, the problems facing the corps continued and the Union Army Balloon Corps would be disbanded in August 1863, well before the end of the Civil War. However, the tactic was ...

Civil War Balloon Corps enthusiast says balloons in battle often overlooked, but important: Army Heritage Days. Updated: ; May. 17, 2014, 10:37 p.m. | Published ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

When the Civil War began, her husband joined the 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. As soon as her husband left so did Marie, despite Bernhard wanting her to stay and mind the tailor ...

Archeologists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, aided by divers and salvage operations teams from the U.S. Navy, retrieved a 64-square-foot section of a Civil War ironclad warship from ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

The Marine Corps' Intellectual Civil War U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Force Reserve, at the company’s deactivation ceremony on Marine Corps ...

The seven Civil War battles that follow is not an exhaustive list; 48 units flying 457 streamers across 12 states, three of those states that remained in the Union, are bound to have fought in ...

Everything the Union army under Gen. William Rosecrans did from Stones River, Tenn., to the Georgia coast -- command, control, intelligence and logistics -- was interconnected by Rosecrans' Signal ...

Since that time, Army engineers have played crucial roles in every U.S. military conflict, from the War of 1812 and the Civil War to the war in Afghanistan and ongoing counterterrorism operations.

After the Civil War, everything that the Confederate traitor Davis had touched was scrubbed away — and that included the Army's camels. The railroads finished them off. By the 1870s, they were ...