Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at ... But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation. During the early years of the war he continued writing in Brooklyn, thinking ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

The Civil War had begun ... with secession and remained loyal to the Union. Many poor southern whites became disillusioned during the course of the war. Wealthy planters had been granted ...

During the Civil War, no flag became a more popular symbol of Union loyalty than the worn and imperiled standard belonging to 19th-century sea captain William Driver, who was originally from Salem ...

It discusses the flag's evolution from the Grand Union Flag during the Revolutionary War ... including the Declaration of Independence and the Civil War, emphasizing the flag's symbolism of ...