RACINE -- Confederate re-enactors have been banned from participating in a Memorial Day ceremony to re-dedicate a Civil War era cannon in Mound Cemetery. Racine's Cemetery Commission members decided ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Thousands of men in Confederate gray and Union blue and women in black hoop skirts and veils escorted the crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

Many of today’s re-enactors were born as the last Civil War veterans were dying, and grew up amid the celebrations and re-enactments of the centennial that lasted from 1961 to 1965. But the heyday of ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – The commander of the Confederate army marched to the front of the makeshift classroom in jeans and a dress blue shirt to deliver battle plans to his top lieutenants, complete ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. - For thousands of Civil War re-enactors, the next four years are a chance to capitalize on the public's curiosity about a century-old hobby that demands such ...

Chip Landry, who spends most of his time as a member of the re-enactment group the Louisiana State Militia, 10th Brigade, puts away his Confederate gray outfit for the Hart re-enactment and dons the ...

(AP) Dozens of Civil War re-enactors gathered Thursday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a famed attack by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry a battle in South Carolina that showed the ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - An opening volley of musket fire ushered in the start of the milestone commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg on Friday, 150 years after the Union Army turned away a Confederate ...