Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson ... being made to salute the Jackson statue. Jackson, who taught at VMI before leaving to fight as a Confederate general in the Civil War, casts a long shadow.

Most Civil War enthusiasts are familiar with the name Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the iconic Confederate hero who died in the ...

When the Civil ... Lee, Stonewall Jackson, John Pope, George Meade and thousands of the soldiers who served with them also became familiar with the location. During the first year of the war ...

In 1916, after 30 years of advocacy by the Society, President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 to be Flag Day. This was again ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

Dozens of people who hadn't even heard of Civil War veteran John Weigel until today honoring his memory and his family. The first of its kind in Westmoreland County, *** Memorial Day ceremony for ...

Weather has washed away some of the names, but even the ones you can read Richard Howard, George Riley, Ruben Jackson are not ... soldiers who fought in the Civil War, 12 of them and their families.

Davis was propped up almost 50 years after the end of the Civil War and survived for 113 years. Then protesters knocked the Richmond Howitzers Monument statue from his pedestal, where he had stood ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers. FILE - A member of the Army visits ...

S.A. HISTORY: Confederate veterans laid to rest on East Side A marker in honor of this near-engagement was placed in 1965 by the Texas Historical Commission, or THC, and the Texas Civil War ...

In Khartoum alone, 80 to 90 percent of emergency food kitchens were shuttered. The civil war has particularly hurt Christians. This year, Open Doors ranked Sudan as the fifth most difficult ...