The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states ... Union Gen. William Sherman in Bennett Place, North Carolina, which many in the Confederacy felt marked the end of the ...

A search of website archives confirmed the small, nine-star American flag icon existed prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first ...

I ask several men at a booth for The Sons of Confederate ... trophies in Civil War battles — though it’s hard to imagine it’s kosher for history buffs. A Union reenactor in a hoop skirt ...

Practically speaking, this amounted to an announcement that the Union’s goal was universal emancipation in the seceded states ... Confederate slave system was vast at the start of the Civil War ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its reverse. It is a sketch map of the Arcadia Valley from Pilot Knob to ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

And he is the first African-American member of the Maryland chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans ... who had fought on both sides in the Civil War. “I was surprised about the variety ...