The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United ... Entrepreneurs planned a second, called the Northern Pacific. Cooke's firm was the financial agent ...

Genealogist Neicy DeShields-Moulton, who traces her roots in the United States back 200 years, spoke about members of her ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away ... as well as the arrival of the first railroad from Houston on Christmas Day, 1871. The first rearranged ...