WILLIAMSBURG — National officers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy were on hand for a solemn memorial service Friday morning at the graves of four unknown Civil War soldiers recently reburied ...

HANCOCK, Md.-The Medal of Honor, created by Congress during the Civil War as America's highest military decoration for valor, was never meant for Americans who fought for the South. They were the ...

In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set to work among the graves of their fallen comrades. Some were “frail of ...

Missouri state Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) faces a storm of criticism for participating in a ceremony last weekend that honored Confederate soldiers, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports. Suggested ...

The Florence City Council will debate and vote on a plaque that may be placed in front of the controversial Confederate Soldiers Monument this week.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue honoring Confederate soldiers, dedicated on the Franklin, Tenn., town square in 1899. (Photo: John Partipilo) A statue ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 32-foot memorial to the Civil War's fallen Confederate soldiers has towered for a century near the visitors center of St. Louis' sprawling Forest Park. Now, the granite shaft ...

A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups ...

Whether it's viewed as a symbol of a proud past, a symbol of slavery and the Old South, a symbol of service and the honored dead, or a pillar of a beautiful city, people have thoughts about the ...