Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil ...

At the end of the Civil War, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to establish a base of operations for his occupying troops, and soon after, he read General Order No. 3 at a ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Generally speaking, Abraham Lincoln had a big problem during the Civil War ... many of his top generals didn’t get along. Between some of them it was so contemptuous ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 14, 1861. Abraham Lincoln orders Union reinforcements sent to Missouri after a Confederate victory at the Battle of Wilson Creek. The Show-Me State was important to ...