Gettysburg National Military Park was established in 1895 to commemorate an 1863 battle that turned the tides of the Civil War. Situated in rural southern Pennsylvania, this landscape was once a hub ...

Jeffords, however, would not recover, becoming the highest-ranking officer to die of a bayonet wound in the Civil War. This week marks the 154th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.