Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Confederate Memorial Day is a holiday commemorating the Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. The holiday was first declared in Georgia on April 26, 1866 on the first anniversary of the ...

Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day on Monday, April 28 this year. Only four states still honor the Civil War dead with a day off for public workers, though others still treat it ...

June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War, and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day. Yes. A bill to stop celebrating Confederate Memorial Day and designate ...