This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...
In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...
Over three days, Union ... of the US Civil War. In the wake of the mass shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, a movement emerged to try to get the flag removed ...
Last year, six in 10 South Carolinians said the flag should stay ... No account of the Civil War can be complete without noting how vicious the Union army could be, and how destructive its ...
Dying in the midst of the Civil War, he was branded as a traitor by the Union and the US government refused to ... coffin was ...
The Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the US Civil War. Recent protests have renewed calls to ban the Confederate flag across the US. In his memo to ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States ... purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...