Jeremiah Helms served as a drummer boy in the 50th Pennsylvania. He was mortally wounded at Antietam in September 1862.

The 10th New York Cavalry spent Christmas 1861 in the Adams County seat. Decades later, they remembered the experience of a holiday at war.

Guest contributor EJ Murphy details the experiences of the 132nd Pennsylvania at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Captain Robert Galway bravely led his Pennsylvanians into action at the Battle of Dranesville on December 20, 1861.

Check out the videos that PennCivilWar recorded at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in December 2019.

As a result of the Battle of Fredericksburg, seven Pennsylvanians earned the prestigious Medal of Honor. Codie Eash explores their stories.

George Snowden experienced Civil War combat for the first time during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862.

Darius Couch reflected on the horrors he witnessed during the Battle of Fredericksburg in the decades after the Civil War.

In his memoir, Frederick Hitchcock vividly describes how he escaped death at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Outside of Washington, D.C., perhaps no town or city has been so deeply attached to the Civil War legacy of Abraham Lincoln as...

Sallie Simonton's journal provides an incredible eye-witness account of Harrisburg's impromptu celebration on April 9, 1865.

President Abraham Lincoln won re-election in November 1864 against George McClellan. Pennsylvania played a crucial role in the election.

A newspaper editorial lamented the horrific costs of the Civil War in a November 1864 editorial in the Pottsville "Miners' Journal."

In 1864, several Union officers made a daring escape from a Southern prisoner-of-war camp.

EJ Murphy dives into the history of the monument to Major General John F. Reynolds in Philadelphia.

Experience the Civil War like never before with the new virtual reality project from the American Battlefield Trust.

In the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.

With the close of 2019's National Hispanic Heritage Month, we examine the career of Federico Fernandez Cavada - a Cuban-born veteran of...

Nearly a month had passed by the time the Pittsburgh Daily Post weighed in on the hot topic of John Brown's ill-fated raid at the United...

In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries