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

We step back in history to a Civil War Confederate Camp with reenactors. We take a closer look at their equipment and show ...

The ultimate target of their assault was Richmond, the Confederate capital ... New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves ...

Civil War historians told PolitiFact the flag does not represent a Confederate flag. The first Confederate flag had a varying number of stars based on how many states seceded from the Union.

The Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill that would end some tax exemptions for organizations that honor the ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

Fort Bragg, one of the largest Army bases in the US, was named for Braxton Bragg, a general in the Confederacy and slave owner who lost nearly every battle he was involved in during the Civil War.

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War ... battle of the war. If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that it would have caused the Confederacy to gain ...

In this lesson, students investigate a historical mystery—the 1865 explosion of the steamship Sultana—by analyzing a collection of primary and secondary source documents. They work in ...

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 ...