The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

In a petition, workers explained that not only was the man featured in the painting a Confederate general, but he was none other than Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a ruthless slave trader, the ...

Where Civil War Soldiers Will March Again Despite some opposition, the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C., is as committed to the Civil War as it is to exhibiting Modernist prints and ...

A colossal painting, once claimed to depict a Confederate victory, has carried an evolving meaning. Now, a spectacular restoration at the Atlanta History Center unravels its complex tale.

Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, worked even harder to wrench the Cyclorama away from the Old South. When Jackson was elected in 1974, the painting had fallen into disrepair.

This photo of Confederate soldiers marching through Frederick, Md., was thought to have been taken in 1862. Amateur researchers Paul Bolcik and Erik Davis determined it was taken in 1864, and ...

In 1890, the painting was sold to a circus hustler named Paul Atkinson, who moved it to Chattanooga and altered its details so that it would appeal to Southern audiences: Confederate prisoners of ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

Steven Holmes writes that the relative lack of statues of Longstreet, who favored Reconstruction after the Civil War, shows that Confederate history is seen through a political lens.

Madison, Wis., was home to the state’s largest Civil War training camp of Union soldiers and a Confederate prison camp. After the war, Camp Randall became the state fairgrounds. In 1917, it ...

After calling for the relocation of a confederate statue at the University of Mississippi, students are now demanding administrators halt the project after learning they plan to spend more than $1 ...