One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland ... the Confederate Army of the Potomac ...

During the Confederate cannonade ... Lee, commanding the "Army of Northern Virginia," led his army north into Maryland and Pennsylvania, bringing the war directly into northern territory.

Until it was officially renamed Fort Liberty in a ceremony just off the 172,000-acre Army post’s main parade grounds on June 2, 2023, that base had carried the name of Confederate Gen.

She was also the first woman to lead an armed military assault that freed over 750 enslaved people and destroyed a Confederate agricultural area, according to a Maryland National Guard press release.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy is now open to renaming 10 bases that were long ago named after Confederate leaders, an Army official said By Jeff Schogol Posted on Jun 9, 2020 Army Secretary Ryan ...