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 ...
They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the inherent fighting ability of the race. This was what General ...
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 ...
Throughout America's history, from the Battle ... the Civil War, when the Emancipation Proclamation declared they could join the armed forces of the United States. Although Black Americans fought ...
The battle of ... attention about this war, and that is the war viewed from the prism of African people—African perspective. I have been encouraged by the great African American Dr Henrik ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical ... Grant’s tenure were related to the South ...
The documentary "Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War" tells the story ... and justice even if they lose the battles: "The war of equality will win all over the world ...