The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

This article originally appeared on Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter: Manitowoc County Historical Society celebrates Civil War flag with ceremony reenactment ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... Appomattox toward the end of the Civil War. The purge, which also targeted ...

In 1935, he volunteered for the Ethiopian war, earning two War Merit Crosses ... followed by the playing of the ordinance silence and the flag-raising with the National Anthem.

In the summer of 1885, supporters of John A. Logan -- a U.S. senator from Illinois and a prominent Union general during the Civil War -- wanted to arrange a 103-gun salute for his visit to ...

The countryside surrounding this city was home to the bloodiest, single battle of the Civil War and Wisconsin is well ... Grant County who carried the U.S. flag for Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

It seems Illinois might not be getting a new state flag after all. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Thursday more people prefer Illinois' current state flag than any of the proposed ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...