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

Reenactors representing the 23rd Regiment of the USCT will appear in uniform and speak about the men’s involvement in 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

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 ...