The huge Confederate flag flew high above I-95 north of Fredericksburg, startling Anthony Sanchez on his daily commute. “It was a provocation,” said Sanchez, who teaches at a community college.

The symbol comes from a square battle flag flown by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. It was never an official banner of the Confederacy, but it grew so popular ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: The Union defeated the Confederacy.

Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles will begin recalling specialty license plates depicting the Confederate battle flag following a federal judge's decision last week to dissolve an injunction ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves.

Virginia law prohibits “the willful or ... “We are Southern gentlemen.” But the Confederate flag has long been viewed as a divisive and racist symbol by many who see it as a banner for ...

RICHMOND, Virginia – It will be flag versus flag Saturday near the former capital of the Confederacy, as a heritage group promises to hoist a Confederate battle flag up a 50-foot pole along ...

For years, a claim has circulated on social media that the state of Minnesota has repeatedly refused requests from the state of Virginia to return a battle flag captured from Confederate troops ...

(WRIC) — On Tuesday, a Virginia county is set to decide the ... the monument has had confederate flags flying 24/7.” The local chapter of the NAACP has also called on the not to transfer ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.