Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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This Union Regiment Suffered the Most Losses in the Civil War
The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered ... 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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More Than Two Dozen Civil War Soldiers Were Laid To Rest After Their Remains Were Found In A Seattle Funeral Home
For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...
Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...
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THE Last Civil War Volunteers: The 125th U.S. Colored Infantry in New Mexico, 1866–1867
THE Last Civil War Volunteers: The 125th U.S. Colored Infantry in New Mexico ... 491, 496; U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 130 ...
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African Americans in the Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause ... Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle.
Medal of Honor recipient depicted in movie ‘Glory’ erased from Pentagon website
Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...