The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

In 1864, Baldwin's son died in the Civil War, and Hale retrieved the body from the battlefield. “He was a giant of Montgomery ...

Like Fort Benning, Fort Bragg was named after a Confederate general.

Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen ... a brigade commander in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Although Fort Bragg was previously named ...

This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: When it Raines, it pours: Civil War scholarship and Alabama ...

The Soldier's Body Recovered in Yard ... Andrew Jackson Buttram, CSA, from the American Civil War. The battle/skirmish happened in Munford, Alabama on April 23, 1865 and his body was recovered ...

Semmes would, after the Civil War ended, write up his adventures aboard the Sumter and the Alabama in another volume of “Service Afloat.” Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

Selma commemorates the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday this weekend, reflecting on the historic march for voting rights and the violence that ensued.

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in southern states created multiple holidays to honor Confederate leaders and dead Confederate soldiers. Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a ...