Carney was the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor, though not the first to be awarded. Several other Black soldiers were awarded the medal during or soon after the Civil War for valor, ...

The City of Beaufort is working on designs for a new park to honor the first black civil war soldiers who fought on the ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung ... highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War ... monument to honor and commemorate the soldiers.

After the Civil ... black Marylanders seized the chance. (Some slaveholders accepted the Union’s offer of $300 per man to let them go.) After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers ...

a Black Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his gallant defense of a firebase near South Vietnam's border with Cambodia in 1968. He'd spent his entire career challenging ...

The National Medal of Honor Museum is set to open Tuesday in Arlington, just west of Dallas. It highlights the lives and service of Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War to the global war ...