For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. Several years ago, volunteers with the Missing in ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of ...

The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...

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 ...

But this week, President Donald Trump accused soldiers like them ... of women who fought in the Civil War. Blanton said estimates range from about 400 on the Union side to about 250 on the ...

Army photo/Screenshot from ‘Glory’ A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as ... and carried it back to Union lines as the 54th retreated.

allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army.

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...