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Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. What to know ...
Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant were one of a kind ... if I were to grow a beard and put on a Federal officer’s uniform, if I might look like Grant,” Fields said.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's great-great grandson condemned last weekend's deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va. as "sad" and "senseless" and suggesting that it would be "appropriate" to move ...
The monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee across the street from Roanoke’s city hall was toppled Wednesday night. City crews removed two chunks of the now-broken stone shaft from the ground ...
It’s common knowledge the beginning of the end of the Civil War came about with Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox. But the surrender ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE — After being unable last month to decide whether to keep Charlottesville’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the city’s central square or move it to McIntire Park ...
We need this year more than ever to be reminded of the meaning of the day. At a moment of national crisis that is frequently ...
“He normally wore a very plain uniform, but he wore the best uniform ... Schobert will portray Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Union Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps will perform Civil War-era field ...
John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...
Charlottesville’s nearly 100-year-old statue of Robert E. Lee will be melted and turned into ... of the city’s statues of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Meriwether Lewis ...
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...