Us Civil War

West Virginia’s first state park commemorates one of the state’s last significant Civil War battles.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

Twelve unique carved plaques across Humboldt tell a story of the ingenuity and bravery of ordinary citizens during the city's burning.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.