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

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

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

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 ...

He wore a plaid tobacco bag around his neck, square-toed boots, a jean-cloth suit coat woven on a 19th-century loom and pants ... Known to Confederate fighters as "the terrible Black Hats," it became ...

Walker was unable to put his pants on for over two months following ... Roughly 800 Iron Brigade soldiers were taken as prisoners by the Confederate Army on May 4, Walker wrote.

The memorial honors 21 soldiers buried in the cemetery, who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later joined the U.S. Army to fight in the wars with Native Americans in Arizona.

During the Civil War, he was forced by the confederate army to work on fortifications ... intentionally violated the rule by wearing pants. Later that year, the rule was amended to allow women ...

Until it was officially renamed Fort Liberty in a ceremony just off the 172,000-acre Army post’s main parade grounds on June 2, 2023, that base had carried the name of Confederate Gen.

Confederate Gen. James Longstreet and his newly-arrived and organized men from the Army of North Virginia were ... had dark blue coats and lighter blue pants … just like the enemy wore!