On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

I think what’s been lost to history is the fact that the Union was not, in the war’s early years, wholly united around the war effort. The public’s enthusiasm was not helped along by setback after ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

In June of 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and about a thousand of his cavalrymen rode into Mexico and exile rather than remain in a conquered South. As they forded the Rio Grande, they stopped ...

THE time for the ideal history of the tragic episode of the Confederacy is not yet, but it is near. We are fifty years removed from the last gunshot. That luminous clarity with which sympathetic ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...

Dylann Roof’s writings were alarming enough, but a photograph of the white supremacist holding a Confederate battle flag and a handgun was hauntingly prescient. In June 2015, Roof gunned down nine ...

In the wake of the Charleston church shootings that killed nine African-Americans, a long-simmering debate over public displays of the Confederate battle flag has boiled over in the South. Lawmakers ...

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