Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation, won’t be returning to its former perch in Baltimore’s Canton ...

Less than two years after changing the name of Columbus military base Fort Benning to Fort Moore, the U.S. military will hold ...

It depicted an unnamed Confederate veteran atop a column and pedestal and bore the inscription, “Lest We Forget Our Confederate Dead." It was flanked by two Civil War cannons. Crews dismantled ...

On a night when the ship’s three white officers ... former Confederate states. When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was ...

The name of Henry L. Benning, a former Georgia Supreme Court justice who vocally supported secession and served as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, had adorned the base since it ...

Jubal Early of the Confederate States ... as a traitor to the United States; back in Kentucky he pleaded with his state to stay out of the spreading civil war. Union military authorities ordered ...