One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

David D Porter Camp with Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will show the average kit ... served in the 9th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The unit, which included many Northwest ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland ... Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before moving to Irwin. He lived in the borough ...

Fascinated with the Civil War since childhood ... Two years passed then and the war ended before a Union infantry officer, Lt. Frederick E. Grossman, led a detail of troops who searched two ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

We are highlighting the history of African Americans in Colorado and how they shaped our past. We looked at the city's founding and how it was founded by abolitionists and the legacy that carried.

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

The City of Beaufort is seeking proposals from qualified master planners and landscape architects for the design and build of a proposed passive park commemorating the 1st ...