On May 5, 1864, Horace Hill was killed near Chancellorsville while fighting Confederate forces with the 111th New York ...

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Spotsylvania County obtained artifacts from the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville to display in museum near the battlefield after the renaming of a Navy ship by ...

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The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero. The USS ...

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The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history. The former USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship, has been re-named in honor of Marie ...

The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift. By Emily Schmall ...

The U.S. guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville, which was homeported in San Diego for many years, has been renamed Robert Smalls, honoring a Civil War-era maritime pilot who commandeered a ...

HOLY CITY SINNER — Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro recently announced that the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser formerly named USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) will be renamed USS ...

A US Navy guided missile cruiser is losing its name that previously honored a Confederate victory. The ship, formally known as USS Chancellorsville, will be named USS Robert Smalls. Robert Smalls was ...