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

Fitz Lee grew up in Dinwiddie County, received the Medal of Honor for bravery during wartime and died of health issues ...

The Mississippi legal code recognizes 10 holidays ranging from the traditional ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Veterans Day.

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

The state honors Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee on the same day in January. And baffling to many, the state has a Confederate Memorial Day holiday in April. Advertisement.

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

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

The Robert E. Lee hotel was a gleaming 10-story symbol of Winston-Salem's boom time when it opened its doors in 1921. ... And on a cold spring day 40 years ago Monday, ...

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s. More than three ...

Mississippi and Alabama each celebrate three Confederate holidays as paid days off for state employees, including Robert E. Lee Day, Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ Birthday ...