One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other ... general who carried the weight of Confederate hopes on his shoulders.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

In the summer of 1863, however, Confederate soldiers bound for Gettysburg captured Lyles and her children. Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the verge of being ...

Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in ...