Ask Lou Giles about Samuel Neale, and the amateur historian will rattle off how Neale was one of the few Black men who served in the Maryland Militia during the War of 1812, helped tend to wounded ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the military recognition most soldiers in his situation were granted has been declared a veteran of ...

These days, it’s hard to think of a veteran who could have served from World War II, Korea and Vietnam. It’s happened, of course, but imagine a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War ...

One of the trains had a number of Pennsylvania Militia on board, returning home from the Maryland border. Ten or twelve soldiers were killed, and about twenty wounded, including two Philadelphians ...

On June 1, 1812, President James Madison ... James Breckinridge voted against the war, he served honorably as a brigadier general in the Virginia militia in 1814. Federalist generals such as ...

After a second mock volley, the re-enactors retire to the parking lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ... Some states withheld their militia.