Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

The Civil War ... to join the Union Army had been rescued from slavery under the leadership of Harriet Ross Tubman...." By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

Army photo/Screenshot from ‘Glory’ A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil ... he held the flag aloft until he was rescued, and carried it back to Union lines as ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American ...