Author and military history professor Louis DiMarco talked about the evolution and role of the Union and Confederate cavalries over the course of the Civil War. He compared the capabilities of the ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

Forty years later, Sarah Halstead, the daughter of a 13th New York Cavalry officer, returned the hat to Mosby. A few days after it arrived, Mosby went to the White House and presented the hat to ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.

Just like people will pay money to own a Civil War hat or musket, they will pay money to own Confederate money. Some rare Confederate bills are now worth 10 times more than they were in 1861 ...

The cavalry began as a county militia before the Civil War and transitioned into a Confederate unit after Virginia seceded from the Union, Hickox said last week. It became Company A of the 4th ...

J.E.B. Stuart’s reputation as a cavalry commander enshrined him in Confederate ... Gettysburg — the bloodiest and one of the most decisive Civil War battles. His cavalry was late to ...

A Confederate cavalry general, ... The Civil War, by far our nation’s most deadly armed conflict, used up men so fast that some officers became generals in their 20s.

Over a century later, the flag, deemed one of the rarest relics from the Civil War, sold for $82,000 at auction. For years, the Confederate flag has served as a powerful symbol, one that's meant ...

The Civil War at 150 ... That was 150 years ago — the end of the Civil War. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9 of 1865, ... repulsed by the 2nd Florida Cavalry.

During the United States’ long Civil War, no Confederate flag came within the shadow of the US Capitol, but on January 6, 2021, an insurrectionist carried one right through its halls.