The recent debate over the meaning of the Confederate flag has launched a broader discussion about how we commemorate the Civil War. As Jamelle Bouie w ...

Southern Utah University professor Laura June Davis taught a class about Civil War naval warfare, comparing the Union and Confederate navies.

On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...

Scribner Excerpted from The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson, available now from Scribner.

After Fort Sumter was bombarded, the Union and Confederate armies started to experience the activity soldiers would come to know best: marching. A soldier could expect to cover at least ...

The map shows the locations of some 5,800 graves scattered across a 12-square-mile area. It uses different notations for Union and Confederate soldiers and, in some cases, even specifies the ...

As the Civil War began, the Union wanted to control New Mexico as a way to access the gold in the mountains of the West and California’s deep-water ports. The Confederates wanted these same ...

Each of the eight stars represented a Confederate state in March 1861 when the flag was adopted. The similarity of the design of the Confederate flag and the Union “Stars and Stripes” made it ...

The group of anti-Confederate Southerners with the most measurable impact on the war were the 150,000 black men who fought in United States Colored Troops regiments.

Civil War Navies Compared Southern Utah University professor Laura June Davis taught a class about Civil War naval warfare, comparing the Union and Confederate navies.