Pitt Street building in downtown Charleston that operated as Marion S. Hanckel Kindergarten and Confederate Museum could get new life after legal battle.

Vancouver’s former Army post provided a training ground for both Union and Confederate officers until the Civil War broke out in April 1861. At the start of the Civil War, some officers resigned and j ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is the final resting place of U.S. Presidents, Confederate leaders, and thousands ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

Alabama has three state holidays that commemorate Confederate leaders: Robert E. Lee’s birthday, which is commemorated in January on the same day as Martin Luther King Day; Confederate Memorial Day in ...

Davis was born in Kentucky on June 3, 1808. However, Alabama observes it on the first Monday in June. Davis served as president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and had a ...

The time Confederate leader Jefferson Davis came to Canada to give the new country defence tips Back to video. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ...

Jefferson Davis, president of Confederate States of America, benefited from unusual allies, political polarization, and sympathetic people in power.

This photo taken between 1861 and 1865 shows Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Davis’ initial reception by his former countrymen was ...

The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is splattered with paint after it was toppled Wednesday night, June 10, 2020, along Monument Drive in Richmond, Va. (Dylan Garner/Richmond Times ...

Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 when the South lost the war. Davis was charged with treason and his American citizenship wasn't restored until 1977.