Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. A number of those soldiers are buried in the National Cemetery in Raleigh. There will be ...

The Civil War was an intense period of American history, but holidays came around nonetheless. Here's what Americans ate then ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The American Civil ... Union soldiers assigned to northern Virginia lived in constant fear of nighttime raids. Unlike many Confederate leaders, Mosby adapted well to post-war life, becoming ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their ... but the volunteers eventually concluded that all of the soldiers fought for the Union during the war. “It’s amazing that they were ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War ... named the Afro-Union Soldiers and how many Black ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... over several years that they were all Union soldiers deserving of a burial service ...

However, during the Civil War, it was the only award for valor, and members of the locomotive raid became its very first recipients. Union soldiers, including Shadrach and Wilson of the 2nd Ohio ...

Ten months into the Civil War ... At this point in the war, Union supplies of coffee, including those from Liberia, were so assured that Northern soldiers could even afford to destroy the ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and ...

In one of the earliest special operations in Army history, Union soldiers dressed as civilians ... But Bush never did. “The Civil War Medal of Honor is ancient history. Things moved in relevant ...