The Navy will rename the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville for Robert Smalls, a former slave-turned-sailor and statesman known for commandeering a Confederate steamer ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been ... which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil War, was renamed the USS Robert Smalls, the ...

The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history ... honoring an enslaved sailor for the Confederates during the Civil War who later ...

J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping down to Sailor’s Creek. A smaller force of Federals already ...

Some, however, have visited recently. One grave for a Confederate sailor has a clean white naval cap placed on top of it. The decision to remove the statue has already proved controversial.

A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.

WASHINGTON _ Despite recent efforts to remove or rename Confederate memorials, there are still more than 2,000 symbols in places across the country, according to a report released Thursday.