The House passed similar legislation ... as an officer or voluntarily with the Confederate States of America or of the military forces or government of a State while the State was in rebellion ...

Abraham Lincoln visted the house briefly on April 4, 1865, immediately after the evacuation of the Confederate government. In 1893 the house was acquired by the Confederate Memorial Literary ...

On June 19, an array of top government officials gathered ... screened Birth of a Nation in the White House. And Wilson spoke at the dedication of the Confederate Monument, held on Jefferson ...

WASHINGTON — The dispute in Congress over the Confederate flag threatened ... the spending bills pending in the House. Passing them to fund annual government operations is Congress’ most ...

He has published four books on the era of the Civil War, most recently The Fall of the House of Dixie ... demands to remove Confederate flags from state capitals, government buildings and ...

Rick Quinn, who had just walked into in a cramped meeting room to discuss the ongoing fight to remove the Confederate flag from State House grounds. Negotiations had stalled after 12 hours of ...

“On this site, a one-story frame house served as headquarters of ... a Clerk in the War Department of the Confederate States ...

The house was owned by a man who had lived ... With Sherman occupying Raleigh, N.C., and the tattered Confederate government fleeing Richmond, Johnston decided the time was right to end the ...

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.