The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

American military reliance on cavalry peaked during the Civil War. There were more than 1 million cavalry troops between Union and Confederate forces, accounting for nearly one-in-every-five ...

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

As Elizabeth R. Varon observes in Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, her compelling new biography of James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee’s second in command, the Lost Cause ...

The Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is set to be removed this week, officials said. Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson Kerry Meeker told CNN in an email ...

With a chorus of rebel yells and the firing of pistols, more than 600 Confederate cavalry came swooping into New Windsor on July 9, 1864. The troop included 135 men from the 1st and 2nd Maryland ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted a planned removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia a day after two groups filed a lawsuit.

The remains of four Confederate soldiers, uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg, will be reburied in the city’s Cedar Grove ...

WOODSTOCK, Va. – A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid ...