In 1858, Minnesota joined the United States as the 32nd state. In 1862, the Confederate navy destroyed its iron-clad vessel ...

A report examining the four service academies and other military colleges found that while the Naval Academy in Annapolis had ...

Work crews removed a monument to Confederate naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury in Richmond last week, as the city rushes ...

Eighty-four sons of Talbot fought for the Confederacy; one of them, Franklin Buchanan, served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement ...

3 In September 1864 Captain Charles Steedman of the U.S. Navy praised Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut for his decisive victory over Confederate forts and warships in the battle of Mobile Bay.

Irvine served in that same navy, on board the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah — the last Confederate ship to surrender, on the River Mersey, months after the war had ended. When hostilities ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...