"The first edition of this book appeared in 1912. It was compiled by Colonel (then Captain) A. L. Conger, infantry. The present volume is a revision and enlargement of the first edition and has been ...

ST. LOUIS • News of a great victory clacked across the telegraph at 11 a.m. at Benton Barracks, in today's Fairground Park. Union soldiers began 'shouting like madmen," a reporter wrote. A military ...

The Battle of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River near Dover, Tenn., marks the first major Union battlefield victory of the Civil War, 150 years ago this week in 1862. Federal gunboats on Feb. 14, ...

About 800 Confederate POWs were briefly housed in a Lafayette slaughterhouse after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Lafayette residents provided food and shelter for the POWs, who were primarily young men ...

For Harold Wilson, the history of Camp Calhoun isn’t something he just read in a book — it’s part of his own family story. On ...