On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

In June of 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and about a thousand of his cavalrymen rode into Mexico and exile rather than remain in a conquered South. As they forded the Rio Grande, they stopped ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

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When news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency reached South Carolina on the morning of Nov. 8, 1860, joyful Charlestonians took to the streets. Whites erected liberty poles near the ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...

THE time for the ideal history of the tragic episode of the Confederacy is not yet, but it is near. We are fifty years removed from the last gunshot. That luminous clarity with which sympathetic ...

Anyone with a high school education knows that “slavery was the central cause of the Civil War,” said USA Today in an editorial. So why did that come as news to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell? McDonnell, ...

Dylann Roof’s writings were alarming enough, but a photograph of the white supremacist holding a Confederate battle flag and a handgun was hauntingly prescient. In June 2015, Roof gunned down nine ...

A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, lies on the ground in Richmond after protesters pulled it down on Wednesday. (Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP/Getty Images) It should have happened ...

Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as it goes about the business of scouring the backgrounds of possible running ...