Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished himself as a commander.

This column originally appeared in the June 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine.' By the mid-19th century, Centre County stood ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

A sampling of other Declaration of Independence signers who served in the Continental Congress in York between Sept. 30, 1777 ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

As General William Tecumseh Sherman sauntered into Savannah, Georgia, the city at the end of his infamous March to the Sea, , he gave new meaning to the old saying that “to the victor go the ...

On May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls escaped enslavement with an ingenious plan. As a ship’s pilot who helped vessels navigate in and around South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor, Smalls was working on ...

President Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a ...

Union Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman's 1873 portrait hangs in ... But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman from returning to Louisiana after scorching a path through the South.

Union Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman's 1873 portrait hangs in ... But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman from returning to Louisiana after scorching a path through the South.

Weapons from the battlefield, books inscribed by hand and a family Bible are among the items belonging to William T. Sherman, the Civil War general known for the phrase “war ...

Weapons from the battlefield, books inscribed by hand, and a family Bible are among the items belonging to William T. Sherman, the Civil War general known for the phrase “war is hell,” that ...