This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

"May 20th, 1861" was the date that North Carolina decided to join the Confederacy and secede from the Union. The first NC state flag was used throughout the Civil War. When the Confederacy lost ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

As the Civil War began, the Army of Northern Virginia ... Two years later, that flag was in tatters. The North beat the South, and the Confederacy was gone with the wind. How did this symbol ...

Statues of generals Lee and Jackson in Baltimore were removed earlier this week It's been over 150 years since the last shots were fired in the US Civil War, but a debate still rages over how ...

A state park in North Dakota containing the name of a Civil War-era general who led attacks against Native Americans has been ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

In September of 1893, the Rev. William Stone Hubbell, then a minister of North Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, presented the ...

The Cattaraugus County Museum and Research Library in Machias announces the release of “The Journey of the 37th New York ...

Established in 1918, the base was named for Gen Braxton Bragg, a slave-plantation owner from North Carolina ... the battle flag carried by the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

An American flag hung on the side of a barn and a country ... but of a far-right faction of fellow Republicans who have ...

who was laid to rest under a Confederate flag. Born to a rich, slave-owning Virginian family in 1790, Tyler served as ...