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A Civil War museum in Frederick, Maryland, that used to have a Confederate flag on its logo ditched the controversial symbol in a new logo that was unveiled Wednesday. Click to toggle navigation menu.
We've all seen photographs of the Civil War: black-and-white images of bearded Union generals or mustachioed Confederate colonels posing to one side of the camera, dead bodies stacked on the ...
The cavalry officer dressed in Union blue certainly looked out of place as he laid a wreath before the Confederate Veterans Statue in Frederick's Mount Olivet Cemetery. The occasion was ...
Professor Tracy McKenzie talked about the evolving Northern war aims, between unionism and emancipation, during the Civil War. He described how public support for emancipation correlated with ...
Civil War re-enactors, veterans and others gathered at Ellsworth's cemetery obelisk for musket and cannon salutes commemorating the upcoming 150th anniversary of his death.
Union and Confederate Descendants Fulfill What War Could Not. May 15, 2002. By Linda Wheeler. Is The War over?
Panelists talked about the "Union Cause" view of the Civil war, which was the primary view among Northern soldiers and civilians, and its legacy in postwar American politics and culture. "The ...