Meigs was, after all, only the quartermaster general of the U.S. Army from the outbreak of the Civil War until his retirement in 1882.

From women in the workforce to the income tax to the Secret Service, the war gave birth to many pillars of federal power.

Robert O'Harrow talked about his book on Montgomery Meigs, Union quartermaster general during the Civil War. Meigs was responsible for supplying Union armies in the field but also developed ...

Civil War veteran John D. Billings, who served in the 10th Massachusetts Battery, wrote in his memoir Hardtack and Coffee about how important the coffee ration was to the average Union soldier.

When the Civil War began, women were able to take on a variety of new roles. When the Civil War began, women were able to take on a variety of new roles that they hadn’t in the previous decades ...

Landscapers were blown away when they found a possible civil war cannonball while working in the yard of a Virginia home, as official warn residents to call authorities if making such a discovery t… ...

Scythes said the collection is unique for Civil War-era letters because all of them are written to one person from 15 soldiers and a quartermaster at a military hospital.

During the Civil War outbreak, these particular lots belonged to a Quartermaster for the Confederate States Army, Absalom P. Rowe. The lot was a major Civil War-era landscape.

At West Point, Rufus Ingalls was Ulysses S. Grant’s first roommate, and he roomed with Grant again at Camp Vancouver in 1852.

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — St. Mary’s County Government’s Museum Division will host a two-day event on April 26-27, 2025, to honor the 87 lives lost in the Black Diamond disaster during the Civil ...

Prince George: 'War Seen Through the Eyes of Soldier Artists' lecture, free admission 'Since World War I, the U.S. Military has sent soldier artists off to war armed with sketchpads, charcoals, ...