July 10, 2025, marks 10 years since South Carolina lowered the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds. The flag ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

Over a century later, the flag, deemed one of the rarest relics from the Civil War, sold for $82,000 at auction. For years, the Confederate flag has served as a powerful symbol, one that's meant ...

To some, the flag is a symbol of heritage — the oft-capitalized, ever-elusive Southern Pride — while to others, it’s a banner that brings to mind a century and a half of oppression and bigotry.

As flag-waving fervor swept the country, one of the nation’s largest collections of Civil War battle flags lay rotting in a hallway of an old state office building.This spring, the flags, which ...

The public reason for that [was that they] were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. But in fact it was again a flag of defiance [against] the federal government and racial equality ...

A view of flag of the 119th New York Volunteers at a new exhibit of Civil War battle flags, entitled 1863: Loyal Till Death, on display on the first floor at the State Capitol, seen here on Monday ...

Richmond’s Museum of the Confederacy displays the ornate flag of the Caroline Greys,one of the most unusual banners to survive the Civil War.

Raising the standard of history. Around a dozen preserved Civil War battle flags are on public display in the "Follow the Flag" exhibit at The Ohio History Center, with most being stored off site.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The battle of Bull Run was fought on July 21, 2861 and was considered the first major battle of the four-year war.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...

The flags apparently were from the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of veterans who served in the Civil War. The flags were roughly 12 inches in length and width and believed to be from ...