A bonneted Trump supporter, also from Alabama, welcomes me to her stand where she sells jams and other treats branded with Confederate flags. She loves being in Gettysburg, she says, but is ...

The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...

The year was 1913, and it was July – a month marked by heavy air and hot summer sun. George Thom, an elderly citizen from Hutchinson, boarded a train that was heading southeast to ...

In the case of the Gettysburg Campaign, Union "Present for Duty" figures were reported on 30 June for most formations, while comparable Confederate figures are available for different units over the ...

The topic was Gettysburg — what mistakes, large or small, did the Confederates make that led to the Southern defeat? The debate was heated and furious. Tempers were at the boiling point.

The Army of the Potomac had yet to achieve an outright victory against the Confederates, but the tide turned on Gettysburg’s bloodiest day, July 2, thanks to the heroics of Colonel Jeffords and ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

The Seminary president at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg was an ardent abolitionist who was slated for capture when the Confederates invaded Gettysburg. He evaded the troops by going into ...

One score and 12 years ago, a determined director and thousands of reenactors brought forth an epic film based on an historical novel chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. Now the New Ulm Film Society ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate who joined the Confederacy after Virginia's secession. At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men ...

Inside this intimate museum in central Gettysburg, you'll find more than 4,000 artifacts from various historical periods. Noteworthy items include a Confederate flag used at the First Battle of ...