A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...

The American Civil War left many lasting scars in the national psyche, which helps to explain why it has repeatedly proved to ...

More than 161 years after hijacking a Confederate ship for a historic joyride to freedom, a Civil War hero is being honored ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

The community didn’t know these soldiers, but still respected them after death. The community didn’t know these soldiers, but still respected them after death. The community didn’t know these soldiers ...

In an age of instant accolades and viral valor, heroes are everywhere. Celebrities tearfully describing a difficult breakup on daytime TV are deemed heroic. You knew the word had lost all meaning when ...

The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil War ...