Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian immigrant in Michigan, disguised herself as “Frank Thompson” to serve in the Union Army’s 2nd ...

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. "We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to ...

In 2023, amid a national reckoning on issues of race in America, seven Army bases’ names were changed because they honored Confederate leaders. Now, those same bases are reverting back to their ...

A portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform with a slave guiding his horse in the background will be rehung in West Point’s library, the Army confirmed to Military.com on ...

What do bullet holes, the signature of a relative of Abraham Lincoln, Native American carvings, and the names of Union and ...

WASHINGTON — Congress is defying President Donald Trump on removing Confederate symbolism from the military. The Senate on Thursday joined the House in approving legislation that would rename bases ...

A controversial Confederate monument, once removed from its post a mile away from the White House, will make its return this fall. The National Park Service said it restored and will bring back a ...

"The question of slavery" : Confederate soldiers and the Southern cause, 1861-1862 -- Planters and yeomen, officers and privates : race, class and Confederate soldiers -- The greatest of masters : the ...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he will restore several more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures, undoing a renaming process ordered by Congress and completed ...