To assemble a collection of photographs of the Civil War, 24/7 Tempo reviewed historical archives from Getty Images and Wikimedia Commons. The scope of images ranges from horrifying to those ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. (DC News Now) — Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted a quarter-century to collecting ...

On Jan. 25, 1892, neighbor Carrie Boone found the body of her black friend Lewis Martin cold in his bed. It was Boone’s habit to look in on the 52-year-old Civil War veteran at the home he owned ...

A U.S. Postal Service dedication ceremony set for Saturday to celebrate a new series of Civil War stamps will feature a Pembroke man, who claims his family has ties to a famous photo from the 1863 ...

Much of how we think about the Civil War today, some 150 years after the guns fell silent, has to do with the thousands of original photographs that have survived. The Civil War was the first ...

Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," was a slave who escaped his Louisiana plantation and endured a 10-day chase through woods and swamps before he reached a Union encampment in 1863. His story ...

After the war, he took photographs and stereographs—twinned pictures that create a three-dimensional image when viewed with special goggles—of the American West and Panama. He died of ...