COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall. He picked up the flag and carried it forward, reaching the wall of the ...

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.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

By Emily Baumgaertner Faded ink. Inconsistencies. Fires. The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst-kept records, making the true number of casualties ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...

A small dog napped in the shade of a weathered Confederate flag. To be accepted here ... at Colonial Williamsburg or being an extra in a Civil War movie (which many of these men had done).

"Service, and carrying the flag is something to honor," Imhoff said. "African Americans were the victors of the Civil War. Too often we're portrayed as victims but 160,000 (Black) men fought and ...

It has been compared to Petra in Jordan because of the rock-cut nature of the bottom segment and the style of the finial ... In the ensuing civil war, which the text describes in great detail ...

Each buttress is capped with a globe-like terra cotta finial. An annex with a “women ... though it reverted to a private bank during the Civil War. Bank president J. Russell Wheeler.