At Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, 10 Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War have laid at rest in unmarked ... to be laid to rest with an American flag as a shroud. On June 13, 1907, Jameson ...

Critics say it’s a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil rights advances. The Confederate states went through three official flags during the ...

But how did it get there in the first place? South Carolina's confederate flag hasn't been flying since the Civil War. The flag wasn’t prominently displayed in the South until southern ...

Dennis Connors, executive director of the Onondaga Historical Association, said many Civil War flag bearers received ... Robert Howard McCard, born in Syracuse Nov. 25, 1918, enlisted in the ...

When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag ... the true history of the Civil War—and as the controversy ...