He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves of a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle only had the name of ...

Patrick Cleburne, who was born in County Cork and went on to become a Major-General in the Confederate States Army, has a city in Texas and two counties in Alabama and Arkansas named after him.

Hundreds of statues dedicated to the Confederacy - the southern states which revolted against ... and often serve as an offensive reminder of America's history of slavery and racial oppression.

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Some 80 men of Company E of the 5th US Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle ...

Because everyone should be armed for bar trivia success, I present: A few random Texas facts that might come in handy. These are taken from trivia questions I remember, one New York Times ...

Grebien said the burials recall important lessons about the 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, fought between the North’s Union Army and the Confederate States of America at a cost of hundreds ...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, meant to demonstrate broad-based and unifying support as he seeks a ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two ...

It was our Veterans that served and died fighting to free the slaves and many others are still serving to keep them free, all colors including black.

Dixie has long been considered an unofficial Confederate anthem. This view of the song is not an after-the-fact invention but was a commonly held view during the Civil War. As this March 1861 ...