Vandals scratched graffiti into a 155-year-old Civil War cannon at Fort Lyon in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Bell County, Kentucky. The cannon had been displayed on the hillside where a gun likely stood during the war. Because of the damage, park officials moved it near the park headquarters and spent time and money

In 2016, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy gathered to remember their fallen ancestors in a solemn remembrance ceremony. The day included a series of respectful traditions and ended with the “last drink,” a ritual in which water is poured onto the graves of the soldiers being

On August 5 and 6, 2016, the village of Carpentersville, Illinois, teamed up with the reenactment group Stanford’s Battery to bring the Civil War to Carpenter Park. Visitors watched reenactments of battles between Union and Confederate soldiers, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, reenactors gave living history demonstrations of camp life, drills

Two paintings now on display at the Gettysburg National Military Park offer a vivid depiction of two unique perspectives of the Civil War. “The Armed Slave” depicts a slave reading a book with a cigar in hand and a bayonet-equipped musket close by, ready to spring to action in John Brown’s failed slave uprising of

In 1864, Union and Confederate soldiers fought for their lives on the land of southwest Arkansas. More than 150 years later, that ground is being saved. In 2016, the Nevada County Depot and Museum, a nonprofit in Prescott, Arkansas, paid close to $1 million to buy about 448 acres of the battlefield along the Little