The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

For Father’s Day, we begin a few stories about Archibald Stuart, the father of J. E. B. Stuart and the owner of the Laurel ...

“So Robert E. Lee was a great general and Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia,” Trump began, referencing the Confederate general who won many of the early battles against Lincoln's Union army ...

Before casting his vote in support of the change, Councilman Jim Waring recited a Ulysses S. Grant quote about Robert E. Lee that he said illustrated how he felt about Robert E. Lee Street.

After 10 months of watching his 45,000 besieged soldiers thinned by half rations and demoralized by whack-a-mole attacks along miles of fortified trenches at Petersburg, Va., Robert E. Lee ...

Fields says that Grant’s fight at war’s end with Robert E. Lee unjustly overshadows his earlier achievements in the Western theater, naming battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson are ...

The Robert E. Lee statue will not return to its pedestal in downtown Fort Myers. For now. On Monday, Fort Myers city councilors voted unanimously to keep the bust down until the bust's ownership ...

Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since the early 1900s, later combining it with the federal celebration of King, which President Ronald Reagan signed ...

Tennesee observed Lee's birthday from 1917 to 1969 when it was changed to a "special day of observance," but state law requires the governor to proclaim Jan. 19 as Robert E. Lee Day, along with ...

“They replaced the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans with this,” reads the caption on the post. “This is diabolical.” It was shared 50 times in two days.