On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

The Navy will rename the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville for Robert Smalls, a former slave-turned-sailor and statesman known for commandeering a Confederate steamer ...

The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history ... honoring an enslaved sailor for the Confederates during the Civil War who later ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping down to Sailor’s Creek. A smaller force of Federals already ...

The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been ... which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil War, was renamed the USS Robert Smalls, the ...

A U.S. Navy sailor who is a suspect in a mass Memorial Day weekend shooting that wounded at least 10 people has waived ...