Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry, and ...
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... most of the former slave’s work after the ...
They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the inherent fighting ability of the race. This was what General ...
Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
Throughout America's history, from the Battle of Lexington ... Fort Wagner during the Civil War. Click the image to learn more about the "Fighting 54th". Black Americans have left an indelible ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...
Other battles in U.S. history were more costly or complicated. During the Civil ... scale of the war on the eastern front was much greater than in the west. Nonetheless, in American history ...