The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...

Henrick chronicles the “valiant but ultimately doomed” efforts of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to secede from and try to defeat the United States.

The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty is set to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially ...

There are very few of these coins, so there's not a lot to go on for value. Coin Type Value Confederate States of America ...

Ty Seidule, a retired Army brigadier general and co-chairman of the commission that swapped out names of Confederate soldiers who waged war against the United States for American heroes ...

At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America. As the US grapples with the question of what to do with its controversial memorials to the Confederacy, across the ...