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The crowd listened intently as Steve Cottrell, a Carthage resident and Civil War researcher and writer, told the story of the detachment of 40 members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry ...

The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day ...

It commemorates the service and sacrifice of Black troops in Arkansas during the Civil War, focusing on the 1st and 2nd ...

W.C. Heinz, war correspondent for the New York Sun newspaper. "As we helped each other aboard the trucks, it never occurred to us why so many were being assigned to infantry. We were destined to ...

For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...

Then again, assault of the enemy infantry formations by column was less common in American Civil War battles in contrast to the Napoleonic battles. The American commanders liked to march in column and ...