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 ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified 66 — Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were ...

Success against the rebels’ fortress, which had never been touched in four years of war ... African-American soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in what came to be known as the ...

This April marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first battle, at Fort Sumter in South Carolina ... “B” of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a group of African-American Civil War ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...