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 ...
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 ...
The Island Packet4h
Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
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 ...
Longview News-Journal4d
Story of Civil War hero taken off federal website
The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney.
Fort Myers Beach Talk7d
Those who have Civil War ancestors find camaraderie within the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...
The Atlantic5y
Heroes of a Civil War Victory That History Forgot
On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the Union Army ... a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ...
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Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War
A corporal from New Jersey “was promoted to sergeant for gallant ... of women who fought in the Civil War. Blanton said estimates range from about 400 on the Union side to about 250 on the ...