Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

During the U.S. Civil War, the two opposing sides had at least one thing in common -- a love for coffee. However, the North ...

This detail from a photograph obtained by The Associated Press shows Jefferson Griffin among dozens of other Kappa Alpha fraternity members wearing Confederate military uniforms in the early 2000s ...

Two Civil War soldiers who infiltrated Confederate territory to steal a train and destroy the enemy railroad system were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday ...

About 5,000 Confederate soldiers are buried in a city cemetery in Vicksburg, outside the military park. Some 80 years after the Civil War ended, Dukes' father worked in maintenance at the national ...

Most historians, he said, had simply taken longstanding military estimates of fallen Union Army soldiers and simply applied the same share to the Confederate Army, and then added the two to get a ...