These confederate statues caused nationwide protests. Melted down, they're now art pieces

The 18 decommissioned Confederate monuments have been deconstructed and displayed to make a statement on the horrors of ...
Milwaukee IndependentOpinion

A Confederacy built on slavery shows Robert E. Lee’s battles were efforts to preserve a regime of terror

This imbalance reveals how history has been shaped by bias. For decades after the Civil War, the “Lost Cause” myth recast ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...
Butler Eagle

John Donaldson earned Medal Of Honor during the Civil War

Army Sgt. John Preston Donaldson of Butler, a Commissary Sergeant during the Civil War, was at the Village of Appomattox ...
Post and Courier

Robert E. Lee marker to go back on display in downtown Charleston

CHARLESTON — A highway marker commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will once again be displayed downtown, ending a year-long legal battle over its removal. "Lee will rise again in Charleston," ...
Military.com

Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point

A portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in his Confederate uniform with a slave guiding his horse in the background will be rehung in West Point’s library, the Army confirmed to Military.com on ...