The proclamation warned the Confederate states to surrender by January 1, 1863, or their slaves would be freed. Some people were critical of the proclamation for only freeing some of the slaves.

There were two significant attempts to create it that resulted in a few coins. Those coins came in two different designs, each with its own story. 1861 Confederate States of America Half Dollar In ...

Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them. The holidays were adopted by states across ...

But even these attempts failed when the shooters were hesitant to ... tenet that the defense of states' rights, not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic ...