To Jim Hawk the unveiling of the flag was an emotional occasion. The departmental commander for the Iowa Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War was involved in beginning a restoration project of ...

Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media personnel who inadvertently put ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts ... Lawton, a Union lieutenant from the 16th Vermont Infantry ...

MCALISTERVILLE — Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where ... Juniata County Veterans Council will close out the event by placing the metal marker with flag and ...

It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War ... Carney held the flag aloft as the unit dropped back, returning it to Union lines. Years after the war, his actions in the assault would ...

But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — and the start of the Civil War.

The artifact’s current owner turned to Fleischer’s, which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

There are over 400 documented cases of women disguising themselves as men to fight for both the Union and the Confederacy. One of the most famous female soldiers of the American Civil War was ...

On Flag Day, Americans honor the sacrifices made by many to safeguard the symbol of our national union. Generations ... one of the first Civil War regiments to recruit African Americans.

but many consider the surrender at Appomattox Court House to be the Civil War’s de facto conclusion. Much to Sims’ chagrin, the flag of truce ended up in Union hands. “(Union) Colonel ...