Richmond’s Museum of the Confederacy displays the ornate flag of the Caroline Greys,one of the most unusual banners to survive the Civil War.

The flag, Loucraft found in her research, appears to have been donated to Lowell Memorial Auditorium in 1929 by Mary Sawyer Knapp, a woman known to have a large collection of war relics.

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — An American flag that a Maine regiment brought into battles in Louisiana and Texas during the Civil War has returned to its home state. The Portland Press Herald reports ...

Civil War Flags. Catherine Wright talked about the American Civil War Museum’s collection of Confederate flags and told the stories behind some of the collection’s most historic flags.

"I'm pretty convinced that from the end of the Civil War well up into the 1930s, you wouldn't see the Confederate flag flown the way it is today," said Gaines Foster, a Louisiana State University ...

The nationalists who lost China's civil war in 1949 fled to Taiwan and set up their own country, taking their flag with them.Watson says he still sees South Vietnam's flag flying in several parts ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

Why the Confederate Flag Made a 20th Century Comeback. The popularity of the Confederate battle flag today has more to do with the Civil Rights Movement than the Civil War.

When white southern troops went overseas during the war, some of them carried Confederate flags with them. As American forces took over Pacific Islands or European towns, the troops would ...