The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers ... and the African American Civil War ...

Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of ...

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...

ST. LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American soldiers during the Civil War. “The troops could go out if our ...

Today's History Seekers adventure takes us to a field used by both confederate and union soldiers during the American Civil War. We take a girl to the field using an AT MAX metal detector to find ...

A Union soldier from the Civil War was laid to ... Waters’ legacy is recognized by the African American Civil War Museum, which provides some information about his service.

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

Then it was Massachusetts minutemen, farmers and merchants, facing down professional European soldiers at the Lexington ... which would require a bloody Civil War to end. But the intervening ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered that “improper, divisive or anti-American ... the Civil War. The administration says the names honor different individuals, all former soldiers.