A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Lisa Elmaleh In May 1862 ... to a Union ship on blockade duty. In all, he delivered 16 enslaved persons to freedom. After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he ...

The artifact’s current owner turned to Fleischer’s, which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house ...