French-born painter, a three term Baton Rouge mayor and the former owner of the building that became Baton Rouge’s old post ...

is seen through the rows of gravestones at Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery. The Blade/Amy E. Voigt Buy This Image David Bush, left, chair of the Friends and Descendants of Johnson's Island ...

Barack Obama marked his first Memorial Day as president on Monday, calling on Americans to remember U.S. troops who died in ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

For years, Confederate sympathizers have come to Liverpool ... At the beginning of the 20th century, the former cemetery here was landscaped, all traces of its past as a graveyard wiped out.

Exhausted Confederate forces raise the Stars & Bars atop newly-conquered Cemetery Hill while fresh Union reinforcements begin new entrenchments. Other Union reinforcements fortify their flanks ...

Exhuasted Confederate forces raise the Stars & Bars atop the conquered Cemetery Hill. Confederate forces by this time are completely spent and with night falling rapidly, can no longer press the ...