The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
One of these soldiers was Byron Johnson, a hospital steward for the Union Army, who was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1844 and was just 17 when the Civil War broke out. After the war ...
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Mercer County will host a program to mark the 160th anniversary of key Civil War ending events on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, ...
C.A.R., Daughters of the American Revolution, or D.A.R., Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter, and Sons of the American Revolution ...
Russian financial and military contributions have been credited with helping the SAF achieve its gains in recent months.
was the first Black man to enlist in the Union army. Bronson would be the first of 180,000 who would eventually serve during the Civil War. William Bronson may have been the first black soldier to ...