After the war, as the myth of the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” began to take hold in the South, rumors about horrific conditions at the Rock Island Barracks continued to spread as former ...

After the barracks caught fire in 1867 ... The fort was in service from 1820 to 1827. Built during the War of 1812 to guard Rigolets Pass – a strait from the Gulf of Mexico via Lake Borgne ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg have unearthed remains of Revolutionary War barracks, including items believed to have used by military officers, on a site near the ...

Interior view of one of the internment camp barracks at Fort Oglethorpe ... After declaring war on Great Britain in 1812, the United States used the Alien Enemies Act to declare all British ...

On June 4, 1812, the House of Representatives voted 79 to 49 to declare war against Great Britain. In the next two weeks, the U.S. Senate debated the House's bill and on June 17, by a vote of 19 ...

On May 16, 1813, the War of 1812 reached Maryland when the British Navy entered the Patapsco River. After burning Frenchtown’s depot, they were repelled at Elkton. Dr. Julie Shively, Command ...

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 ...

Not only did he have boarding parties ready, he had a film crew standing by to capture the moment: the moment when the U.S. Navy captured its first enemy warship at sea since the War of 1812.

The story of that epic night during the War of 1812 and the restoration that followed is one of our nation’s greatest moments of resilience. The U.S. declaration of war against Great Britain in ...

The society is grateful to the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Maryland for its work on identifying the grave site and obtaining the headstone, he said. About 1,500 Black soldiers ...

Samuel Neale lies in rest just down the street from where he lived for decades, a longtime resident of Frederick and Black veteran of the War of 1812. Neale was honored Saturday with the ...