At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

The 21st Massachusetts would go on to fight in the Battle of Antietam, where more than 22,000 soldiers died in just one day. The 34th and 36th Massachusetts were part of the series of battles that led ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.