By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union ... the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States ... became a legend in the Confederate army only after turning down an offer to command the entire Union force.

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union ... Confederate States wanted to continue the practice of slavery. At the end of the civil war ...

Irvine's tombstone was restored in 2009 by a different neo-Confederate group, the Sons of Confederate Veterans. At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America.