South Carolina observes Confederate Memorial Day and it is even a state holiday. Here's why it is still around.

May 25—"Take that, you hog farmers!" "Die, Yankee!" "Go back to Virginia!" These were just some of the colorful hostilities ...

Mississippi is in the middle of Confederate Heritage Month, and state workers will get a day off later in April for Confederate Memorial Day. Documents explaining why Mississippi left the Union leave ...

Several Southern states still treat it as a holiday. But only four states honor the South's Civil War dead with a day off for public workers. The Magnolia State takes it a step further and celebrates ...

Every Memorial Day, Americans pause to remember the service members who never returned home from war. Here are the seven bloodiest wars in American history ...