Civil War

Thanks to the Missing In America Project, which finds, identifies and inters veterans, the ashes were recovered and most were given a burial service with military honors.

After the killing of nine African-Americans in a South Carolina church last year, there's been a renewed push to take down Confederate symbols across the South. Still, not everyone agrees.

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Civil War psalm The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She was adrift in a lonely war of her own, against a husband who controlled every aspect of her life, including what she ate.

More than 80 years before Photoshop was introduced, a clever photographer doctored this picture — and tampered with history.

Today's 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam got us thinking: What if Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner could revisit some of the original sites he photographed?