Only the American flag and other state and military-related banners will be allowed to be displayed under the new department ...

Americans are concerned about what a nine star flag means in place of the standard 50 stars and 13 stripes on the American ...

By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states.