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So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

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William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

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By Matt White Published Apr 22, 2025 5:28 PM EDT The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were ...

Long before he wrote this month’s federal appeals court decision excoriating the Trump administration’s deportation system, ...

The Shrine of Memory, a fixture of the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, displays the names of nearly 12,000 Virginia men and women who were killed in combat between World War II and the present day.