More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War ... The history of the insignia dates back to World War I, when the Army first began using patches to differentiate between infantry divisions.

After the Civil War broke out ... of an effort to end the war by breaking the South’s public morale. He ended up replacing Grant as the General of the Army, a rank only held by three people ...

Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War ... ranks like Major, General, and Captain. The Confederate Army ...

Almost 2.4 million soldiers fought in the Civil War – about 1.56 ... of the great distances military paymasters had to travel. With the exception of the rank of captain, and for a brief time ...

While cataloging items once owned by the Union Army General ... the general’s wartime sword, the rank insignia from his uniform during the war and his family Bible. Sherman’s descendants ...

Wilson were two members of a team of Union soldiers who were captured and executed after taking part in a daring Civil War mission behind ... Get the latest military news and culture in your ...

Other items that will be auctioned off include Sherman’s uniform’s rank insignia worn during the Civil ... military school in Louisiana when South Carolina seceded in 1861, setting the war ...

WASHINGTON — The commission charged with eliminating commemoration of the Confederacy in the U.S. military recommended ... gray patch referencing the Civil War. A 1949 exception to Army ...

Fort Lee, an Army base named for a Confederate general in the Civil War, was renamed Fort Gregg ... Gregg, who rose to the rank of three-star general during his more than three decades in the ...