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BURLESON — Two North Texas high school students who were kicked out of class for displaying rebel flags vow to take their fight to court. They said they are proud of their heritage, but Burleson High School education officials maintain the Confederate symbol is offensive. Ashley Thomas remembered how it all started. "Principal comes up and says, 'You've got to get rid of your purse... it's racist." Ashley and Aubrie McAllum both received purses patterened after the Confederate battle flag from their parents for Christmas. Both girls decided to take their presents to school. "I don't have 'KKK' written on...

The idea to honor only Confederate soldiers is a bad idea...

The book, "Generals in Bronze," comes out Nov. 1, and is already generating tremendous buzz in the world of Civil War buffs. Late in his life, artist James Edward Kelly tried to publish his memoirs, a book that would have featured his colorful interviews with the many Civil War figures who posed for him. But by then, the Great Depression had set in and publishers told him no one was interested in a war long past. Seven decades after his death, Kelly's dream is being fulfilled. Civil War historian William B. Styple has written a book that chronicles Kelly's life...

In the final years of his life, New York artist James Edward Kelly tried to publish his memoirs, a book that would have revolved around his colorful interviews with the many Civil War figures who posed for him. But the Great Depression had set in, and publishers told Kelly that no one was interested in a war long past. Seven decades after his death, Kelly's dream is being fulfilled. Civil War historian William B. Styple has published a book that chronicles Kelly's life and includes the artist's interviews with key 19th century figures. Styple embarked on the project two years...

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- Novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, whose appearances on a PBS-TV documentary series helped America better understand one of the most defining periods of its past, has died, his family said Tuesday. Foote's widow, Gwen, said her husband, who was 88, died Monday night.

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HARRISBURG, PA.-PRNewswire/ Each Memorial Day, ceremonies across the country echo with the sound of a plaintive bugle call, played to honor those who died in America's wars. The call is "Taps" and it dates back to the American Civil War. "There are some heart-warming myths about 'Taps,'" warns George Hicks, the executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Museum, which opened in 2001, has 65,000 square feet of exhibit space that tells the story of the entire conflict, without sectional bias. The Museum's exhibit about Civil War music includes six battered and tarnished bugles that...

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"Sabers and Roses," the Civil War reality show featuring a treasure hunt, has found a home close to Gettysburg. The show will air on NBC 25 (WHAG-TV), the network's affiliate in Hagerstown, Md., said executive producer and show host Kevin Dolan. Starting April 9 - the 140th anniversary of the end of the Civil War - the station will air the show early Saturday morning for 13 weeks. An Austin, Texas, NBC affiliate will pick up the show as well. Dolan didn't go into details, but said footage from a November casting call in Gettysburg will air in the first...

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Lee & Grant: Profiles in Leadership From the Battlefields of Virginia, by Maj. Charles R. Bowery Jr., U.S. Army (Amacom, 272 pages, $24). On May 5, 1864, at the height of the mayhem and maneuvering of the battle of the Wilderness, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sat on a stump on the bank of the Rapidan River and whittled on a stick.In his book, Bowery joins scores of historians and commentators on Grant who have focused on the Union armies' general in chief's extraordinary behavior at that critical moment of the Civil War. Bowery uses that episode to illustrate the...

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The recent flurry of letters from neo-Confederates asserting that slavery had no role in the Civil War is troubling, as they seem doggedly determined to force counterfactual information on the public. The trend towards "true Southern history," minimizing the slavery issue by insisting that all of America was racist, and that slaves fought for the Confederacy is a spurious and disingenuous argument. Using half-truths and outright misinformation, they try to avoid what any serious historian of the Civil War recognizes as a major issue of the war. Having studied the Civil War since my early teens and teaching it on...

Forgotten Tennessee cemetery yields N.C. Confederate graves By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer October 9, 2004   11:35 am JACKSBORO, Tenn. -- On a little hill overlooking the Cumberland Mountains, weeds and brush are being cleared from a neglected family cemetery, revealing a tall sentry-like beech tree and a forgotten past."Boothill" and 52 slash marks are carved deep in the trunk -- one cut for each of the sunken graves surrounding it. Some are marked by jagged field stones, others not. Who is entombed here?"I was afraid that during my lifetime I would never know," said 88-year-old Alice Coker, a...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Gen. John Buford's bravery at the battle of Gettysburg was little noted nor long remembered in his native Kentucky. "He is one of those all but forgotten heroes," said John Trowbridge, director of the Kentucky Military Museum in Frankfort. "But we would never have won the battle without Buford's quick thinking and quick action on the first day." Rebel infantry outnumbered and outgunned Buford's Yankee cavalry. Even so, the horsemen in blue stalled the Confederates long enough for Gen. George G. Meade's Union Army of the Potomac to organize a defense and ultimately to win the Civil...