Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army ... Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once ...

Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and several entrepreneurs American aeronauts with a good ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

“So much of the African American story -- of us fighting ... the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort.

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

Blanton said estimates range from about 400 on the Union side to about 250 on ... book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat. David Swartz ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War ... soldiers. To get more information, Moore and others collaborated with the National Archives and African ...

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 ...