Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

Pants and belts were relatively standard among ... Compared with their Union Army counterparts, soldiers in the Confederate Army had fewer dress options. In fact, Confederate troops had one ...

It’s frowned upon to wish someone a “Happy Memorial Day.” Due to its solemn origins, there has always been a debate over how ...

Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded rifle ... colonel of the Union Army who came from Port Orchard, Washington, to lead his troops into battle. The re-enactment at ...

When Walter Washington Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the Confederate Army, died ... re stealing valor by wearing camouflage pants. An Iraq War veteran was jumped and ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

May 22, 2025 (San Diego) -- Long-time San Diego resident Al (A.J.) Converse has written a historical fiction novel about his ...

Robertson Camp No. 129 will award Col. Joseph Warren Speight a promotion to brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America. Robertson Camp Adjutant John Dickey said the troop ...

the Confederate secretary of war appointed Tompkins a captain in the Confederate army, “in a possible ploy” so that Tompkins and the hospital could get supplies from the Confederate ...

The war ended in spring 1865; Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. A few months prior to that surrender ...