Florida also officially celebrates the Jan. 19 birthday of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who did his best to remove the “United” from the United States of America. The other four birthday ...

Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier at Appomattox ...

Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier at ...

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work for the unemployed.

But Confederate Memorial Day is one of three Confederate holidays — along with the birthdays of General Robert E. Lee and Confederate ... was updated to add a photo gallery.) ...

A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First ...

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Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday on the last Monday of April. Only four states, including Mississippi, designate Confederate Memorial Day as a paid holiday for ...

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 ...

(Photo Provided) MARIETTA — A special meeting ... in the weeks and months that followed the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

History says some of the Confederacy saw the negotiation as the end of the Civil War since Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to the former president Gen. Ulysses S.