Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in ...

16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.) ...

A ceremonial sword that belonged to a New Brunswick doctor who served in the American Civil War has found its way back home, where it will be on display at the Loyalist House museum in Saint John ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

Marshall Twitchell had only been in Northwest Louisiana for six months when he met a young woman named Adele Coleman in ...

Seven of the Confederate statues taken down over the past decade commemorated Jefferson Davis. A Mississippi congressman and U.S. secretary of war, Davis led the Confederacy between 1861 and the end ...

Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ is a dramatization of a revolt during the American Civil War, led by Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey). He deserted his Confederate troops after the Second Battle of ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a known Civil War trench ... Both Union and Confederate trenches are ...

Milestone Auctions will ring in the New Year with a January 18 Premier Military Sale that commands collector attention throughout its 705 high-quality, well-provenanced lots. The 250-year timeline ...