Was the cause of Confederate defeat external, or internal? Those who emphasize internal causes attribute the failure to breakdowns in Confederate leadership, both political and military ...

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month. Carried by the 11th ...

If you’ve ever spent time in downtown Fayetteville, you may have noticed a stone monument on the northwest corner of the old ...

Since the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the United States has been plagued with its violent consequences.Following the Civil War, there was a rise of neo-Confederate hate groups who ...

Consider that Griffin, then a college student, was proudly posing in Confederate grays 136 years after that side surrendered at Appomattox. While the particular myths of the Lost Cause have varied ...

The Thaddeus Stevens Museum’s expansion on Chambersburg Street next month will include an exhibit about the kidnapping of ...

Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987) David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War ...

Three Long Island fire departments that displayed the Confederate flag have now reached a settlement over alleged discrimination. According to the New York State Division of Human Rights ...

Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell defeated Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. 1922: Interior Secretary Albert B.

Lee, as he tries to ascertain whether Bragg really deserves blame for causing the Confederate defeat. Nearly everyone has a negative view of Bragg, and legions of Civil War enthusiasts and historians ...