It is where north is south and south is north; where barnyards and backyards abut battlefields; where mundane silos and monumental statues share the skyline; and where an Army general known best for ...

Men dressed as Union a soldiers fire guns during a Civil War re-enactment commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of GettysburgPicture: AP Credit: AP Federal (Union) Colonel Edward Cross ...

John Salmon Ford arrived in Texas a month too late for the battle of San Jacinto but he didn't miss much else in the next 50 years of Texas history. His Confederate Cavalry of the West fought the last ...

FORT BRAGG — Fort Bragg will undergo a name change later this year as part of a congressional mandate to remove items from Department of Defense property that commemorate the confederacy. But ...

THE RETREAT FROM GETTYSBURG AND THE PURSUIT OF LEE’S ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, JULY 4-14, 1863 By Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi and Michael F. Nugent Savas Beatie $34.95, 519 pages, illus. A ...

Smaller battles receive but a footnote. The 1863 fight at Aldie, Va., a hamlet about 20 miles west of Dulles International Airport, is hardly mentioned and has been largely forgotten. Aldie resonates ...