The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in ...

A small American flag marks the grave of a Civil War soldier of the United States 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent ... irregular Confederate troops from Missouri shot the Union soldiers ...

Schmale, of Charleston, researches flags that were carried on Illinois battlefields during the Civil War. There were regimental, calvary, infantry and battery flags. For more than 40 years ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag ... rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month. Carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry ...

A 2nd Arkansas Infantry Civil War flag sold at a fair in Cleveland in the 1970s for a lot of money, then the real one turned up. The flag makers of the middle 1800s, mostly women, were quite ...

On a Civil War battlefield, the sight of a blue Union battle flag with an eagle seal flying in the wind meant you were surrounded by 1,000 of your closest friends. And in the midst of a battle ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...