A Richmond, Virginia commission convened by Mayor Levar Stoney “to best tell the real story" of the Confederate era has recommended removing a statue of Jefferson Davis. The monument of the Confederate president was unveiled in 1907 at a reunion of Confederate veterans.
The city of Memphis took down statues of Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, particularly hated as the founder of the KKK, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, in a surprise maneuver around a law to prevent it from happening.
On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln while he was watching the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.
Stonewall Jackson was a leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, commanding forces at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
During the Civil War, Confederate soldier Henry Wirz commanded the Andersonville military prison, where many Union prisoners of war died as a result of poor conditions.
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who became a politician, serving in both the South Carolina legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Known as the " Cleopatra of the Secession," Belle Boyd was a spy for the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War and went on to write a book about her experiences.
Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield led his family in their notorious and bloody feud with the McCoys during the late 1800s along the Kentucky-West Virginia border.
Alexander Stephens was the Confederate vice president during the American Civil War.
In late 1800s, Randall McCoy and his kin engaged in a bitter and deadly dispute with another Appalachian family in the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Jeb Stuart was a General and cavalry leader for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He worked closely with General Robert E. Lee.
James Longstreet was a successful Confederate general. During Reconstruction, some Southerners started to feel he was responsible for the loss at Gettysburg.
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate Army Major General under President Jefferson Davis in the US Civil War who found as much defeat as success.
P.G.T. Beauregard served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He participated in major battles at Fort Sumter and Bull Run.
Jubal A. Early was a Confederate general in the American Civil War whose defeats during the Shenandoah Valley campaigns led to the final collapse of the South.