Griffin said he regretted donning the Confederate uniform, which was customary during ... romanticizes the Confederacy and portrays the Civil War as a valiant struggle for “states’ rights ...

The collection housed at the museum includes parts of his Civil War uniform and weapons he carried during the conflict. Other items from the USS Hartford, the ship he commanded in the Union’s ...

preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle, but not huge compared with those to come later. Counts vary, but the Union lost about 460 men killed ...

back in Kentucky he pleaded with his state to stay out of the spreading civil war. Union military authorities ordered his arrest. Thus John Breckinridge had been left with nowhere to go but into ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised to place a union soldier statue at the ...

In 1913, a half century after the Civil War, the city of Huntington welcomed hundreds of grizzled veterans of that great ...

A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

The GAR Memorial Association and the Civil War museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown are raising funds to purchase a Civil War era sword belonging to Lt. Ezra Griffin, Providence section, now North ...