The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young ... For some women, it was the Victorian era’s suffocating confines of their gender that drove them to disguise — and to the battlefield.

However, whether for a few years or for a lifetime, women who dressed as men in 19th century America clearly rejected the strictures of Victorian ... of women in the Civil War era, sought ...

Sir Keir Starmer is heading north this morning to unveil what he says is a major transport boost to stop the North being ...