A view of flag of the 119th New York Volunteers at a new exhibit of Civil War battle flags, entitled 1863: Loyal Till Death, on display on the first floor at the State Capitol, seen here on Monday ...

Civil War Flags. Catherine Wright talked about the American Civil War Museum’s collection of Confederate flags and told the stories behind some of the collection’s most historic flags.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

LOWELL, Mass.– Union troops were deep in enemy territory, outnumbered badly by Confederate forces on a battlefield in Clinton, La., near the Mississippi border. Among the Union troops in ...

As a reenactor, I recognize that the Confederate battle flag is an inexorable part of American history. Several weekends a year, I see it marched into artificial battle and have often marched along… ...

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

During the United States’ long Civil War, no Confederate flag came within the shadow of the US Capitol, but on January 6, 2021, an insurrectionist carried one right through its halls.

The Union battle flag bears 35 stars and was the one most flown by Union forces during the Civil War, said Lee Humiston, director and curator of the museum. Examples are rare and this one has a ...

The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is displaying a unique, historic flag for a limited time in honor of the Fourth of July.

As flag-waving fervor swept the country, one of the nation’s largest collections of Civil War battle flags lay rotting in a hallway of an old state office building.This spring, the flags, which ...

On May 12, 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia, a Union soldier in hand-to-hand combat with a North Carolina standard-bearer tore the battle flag right off its staff. The ...