At their most basic level, Civil War uniforms distinguished Union troops from Confederate troops: Union troops wore blue while the Confederate troops wore gray. However, a number of distinct ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

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. In fact ...

The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as ...

The Union soldiers from the North wore blue, wool uniforms ... a Confederate soldier and eventually joined the Union forces. White, a member of the National Guard, said some of the Civil War ...

“It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it,” fumed the Confederate ... Civil War’s de facto conclusion. Much to Sims’ chagrin, the flag of truce ended up in ...

More than 160 years after they were captured and executed by Confederate ... Civil War, it was the only award for valor, and members of the locomotive raid became its very first recipients. Union ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th US Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... them was a veteran held at a Confederate prison known as ...