A Confederate Navy jack flag sits at the base of Confederate Mound, a memorial to more than 4,000 Confederate prisoners of war who died in captivity, in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A week ...

The push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the congressionally chartered Naming ...

The Navy says it will not be naming a new class of warship after an officer who once served in the Confederate Navy. The name “USS Brooke” was included on a list of contracts awarded on a Defense ...

The guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville will soon be renamed as part of a broader effort to rename military assets named in honor of the Confederacy. The Japan-based ship is shown here transiting ...

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.

One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity. When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in ...

This past week, the Civil War Preservation Trust designated a new historical site — in England. The shipyards there supplied the Confederate Navy with some of its ships, including the CSS Alabama.