93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation. The army was extremely ...
No Confederate states took the offer ... thenceforward, and forever free." The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves ...
The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases ...
In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...
But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...
Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip tax-exempt status from organizations ...
On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America. Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ...
The American flag has 50 stars representing the country’s 50 states. However, since February 3, the internet has discovered that major U.S.