He lived in Texas for the rest of his life, including during the Civil War, when he commanded Texas troops who stayed with the Union. As a Reconstruction-era governor, he supported civil rights ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

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 ...

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.

To Jim Hawk the unveiling of the flag was an emotional occasion. The departmental commander for the Iowa Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War was involved in beginning a restoration project of ...

The people who served they put their lives on the line,” said Kirk Nystrom of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp 16. “Thankfully, my great-great-grandfather survived the war ...

On a Civil War battlefield, the sight of a blue Union battle flag with an eagle seal flying in the wind meant you were surrounded by 1,000 of your closest friends. And in the midst of a battle ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that ... At the beginning of the war, the Union outnumbered the ...

IONIA — Worn, but not tattered, a handmade silk Civil War battle flag is slowly fading away in the Ionia County Courthouse. The former Union Army's 21st Volunteer Infantry Regiment battle flag ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts ... Lawton, a Union lieutenant from the 16th Vermont Infantry ...