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

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.

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

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 ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday, one of only a few states to do so. The holiday is observed on the last Monday of April and commemorates Confederate soldiers who ...