A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps ... they did try blasting them out of the sky during the Peninsula campaign.

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 ...

Carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry during Pickett’s ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding.