To reclaim the Mississippi River during the Civil War, the Lincoln Administration contacted St. Louis businessman James B.

The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bestowed one of its highest awards to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works ... U.S. Army Engineer Regiment and the U.S. Army ...

before the 30-day mark to honor the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam. The celebration lasted a day before the flags were returned to half-staff for the rest of the mourning ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30 ...

With less than a week until Inauguration Day, President-elect Trump got his wish for flags to be raised next Monday. American flags on public and government buildings are supposed to be flying at ...

The flags are at half-staff due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is going to order that the flags at the Capitol, which are at half-staff due to ...

A day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags currently at half-staff in their states in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter to full-staff for ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will temporarily raise the American Flag at the state Capitol to full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of GOP governors and ...

After the death of a former president, federal statutes typically mandate that flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days. In the case of Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100, that tradition will ...

Flags at federal and state government agencies across the nation are flying at half-staff, and were set to return to full on Jan. 29. This may not be the case in some states. After the death of a ...