Confederate Memorial Day is an official holiday in several states. Why is it celebrated, and where? Does New Jersey take part? Here's what to know.

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

The city of Beaufort, South Carolina is planning to turn six acres of land into The South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent Park, which will honor the first black civil war soldiers who ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

For background, North Ward Councilwoman Jennifer Williams ... The cemetery is the final resting place for over 200 Civil War soldiers, and this ceremony will acknowledge their service and sacrifice.

North Korea has sent 3,000 more soldiers to Russia, adding to 11,000 already deployed, South Korea's military said. About 4,000 North Korean troops have been killed or injured while supporting ...

Just two years into independence, a civil war erupted ... issue for many South Sudanese is the security arrangement. The deal outlined how former rebel forces and government soldiers would be ...

The UN spokesman also pointed out that Sudan cannot “afford to endure the consequences of yet another civil war,” noting that 9.3 million South Sudanese ... in the north of the country between ...

North Korea appears to have sent at least 3,000 more soldiers to Russia early this year, South Korea’s military said Thursday, demonstrating Pyongyang’s continued support for Moscow’s war on ...

For many years, historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil ... soldier—the South had a mortality rate of 13.1% compared to just 4.9% for the North.