Civil War scholar Ron Coddington has compiled a collection of portraits of these men and used the images as a jumping off point for telling their stories. He joins Kojo to help us understand the Civil War as they experienced it.

Kojo examines the latest bellicose moves by North Korea, and finds out what they mean for security on the Korean peninsula and U.S. security.

Amidst months of bad news, Pentagon workers finally got a reprieve late Wednesday, when officials revealed that they were trimming the number of furlough days by a third.

When a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury comes home, the whole family is affected: Helping families cope with wounded veterans.

Authorities have identified 25-year-old Sgt. Eusebio Lopez as the Marine who shot two of his colleagues to death and then killed himself on Marine Base Quantico last Thursday.

Three staff members at the Officer Candidate School at Marine Base Quantico in Virginia are dead in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide.

Nearly 900,000 veterans are waiting for the Department of Veterans Affairs to process their disability claims.

Workers across the D.C. region are bracing for the effects of sequestration, but one oasis from the furloughs is in the region's famous military cemetery.

Supporters of the Army private charged with aiding the enemy released audio recording of his explanation for releasing U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks.