The artifact’s current owner turned to Fleischer’s, which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — and the start of the Civil War.

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

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Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was ... Shot several times, Carney held the flag aloft as the unit dropped back, returning it to Union lines. Years after the war, his actions in the ...

After four years of death and disruption in the Civil War, one might think that everyone would seek ... Fisher, the judge’s wife, appeared in a second-story window with a flag, as the Union medical ...

The state was the first to secede from the Union in ... the Confederate flag represented the Confederacy, a group of 11 states that fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War.