At 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton and Civil War ...

(CN) - A federal judge ordered the return of a ceremonial Civil War-era Tiffany sword stolen from Brown University and later bought by a prominent arms collector. Several dozen prominent New Yorkers ...

Union Capt. Jonathan Taylor never saw home again. Bethlehem’s only officer to die in the Civil War was mortally wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862, amid a brutal and ineffective ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- A Civil War sword missing for 153 years is coming home to the Citadel. According to a spokesperson from the 33 Signal Regiment Foundation , a sword belonging to Col. Charles ...

Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...

When the Village of Cleves was readying to celebrate its 175th anniversary in 1993, members of a local historical society sought out the sword that village namesake John Cleves Symmes carried in the ...