A construction crew prepares Dec. 20 to take down parts of a Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) Regarding the Dec. 21 ...
AIKEN — Around 160 years after a Confederate soldier from Tennessee was killed during the Battle of Aiken, he is no longer unknown thanks to a Veterans Administration historical grave marker. “For ...
The wind washed over the rows of white tombstones and carried the last leaves of autumn on its breath. I held the map of Arlington National Cemetery up to my face, clinging to its edges as its corners ...
Confederate leaders Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis are depicted in this carving on Stone Mountain, Ga. MPI/Getty Images Defenders of Confederate monuments have argued that the ...
Workers at Arlington National Cemetery will finish removing a monument to Confederate soldiers from the grounds Friday, drawing mixed reactions. Workers at Arlington National Cemetery will finish ...
The tours take place this weekend, with staff from the Mary Todd Lincoln House sharing stories of soldiers and civilians ...
"A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days," the Associated Press reports, as "part of the push to remove symbols that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Washington, D.C.-area statues commemorating the Confederacy will be restored and replaced, in line with President Donald Trump’s pushback on recent efforts to reframe America’s ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost roughly $10 million total, a U.S. Army ...
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Our prison housed Confederate POWs, many of whom were afforded burial plots in the North Alton Cemetery or on Smallpox Island. For an account of how the citizens of Alton came together to keep Union ...
On Monday, Taylor Galaska sat at a long table in the historical society’s dining room, flipping through his new book, “The ...