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 ...

Curiously, before the war Charles Kochersperger ran a private mail service in Philadelphia, Blood’s Penny Post ... sides during the Civil War—about 90 percent for Union soldiers, above ...

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 ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

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 ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

George Pickett, who steered more than 12,500 soldiers that day ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding.

Israel is on a perilous path that, if it does not wake up, will lead to the collapse of its democracy and civil war. Thus spake ... Does he really think that soldiers who lived, fought, and ...

According to Steyer, Wolff served as a Union Army nurse ... great city that it is.” Civil War nurse and Fort wayne native Helena Wolff Many speakers dressed in soldiers’ uniforms.

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and prevented the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and other ...