Join us as Steve Phillips and Robert McDaniel take their metal detectors to the former home of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. From musket balls to 1800s coins, the relics they recovered ...

George T. Garrison's Trunk, National Museum of African American History and Culture (National Museum of African American History and Culture ) This well-preserved leather trunk, believed to have been ...

What began as an ordinary relic hunt became a journey into the Civil War. Beneath the soil, Confederate artifacts emerged, silent and scarred by time. To a Yankee girl, holding these relics was like ...

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — The Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement west of Fort Worth announced it will permanently close its doors Oct. 31. The museum opened in 2006 and is reportedly the ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn.-When the flagbearer for Company G of the 1st Minnesota Infantry was shot during the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, a private named Edward Needham saved the handmade U.S. flag from ...

GREENFIELD – Maranda Anderson wanted to do more than just tell her students about the Civil War. She wanted them to get their hands on a bit of history. Last week, she shared a trunk full of replicas ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a known Civil War trench. The students found remnants of a fire, pottery, glass ...

The Heritage Commission of Annapolis is pushing for the city to sponsor an archaeological survey of a piece of land set to become affordable housing, where a 19th-century farm enslaved African ...