The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

It was the Confederacy’s last attempt to invade ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had ... What’s more, with desertions the Confederate replacement rate is a fraction of the Union’s. That means his smaller ...