The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The two commanders sat across ... largely be deferred. The Union was saved, but the intersections of race and legacy of slavery, which was at the core of the Civil War, continues to confront ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II ... Thompson was caught behind enemy lines and led Union troops back to capture a rebel general. Though removed from Defense Department servers ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle ... which had now become a deathtrap. Union commanders then sent in the African Americans of the Fourth Division.