“The African race makes excellent soldiers,” Miner said ... as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and fight in the American Civil War to end the enslavement of Black people.

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

Two children of Civil War veterans received pensions from V.A. of $876 annually One of the children, a man, died last August at the age of 93 Last verified Civil War veteran died in 1951 ...

In this blog post, Jabour explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War. 'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of ...

WILKES-BARRE — City Cemetery was the site of a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday afternoon, during which local United States ...

Delphi, IN is quickly becoming quite the attraction, with its downtown square offering a variety of old timey experiences ...

and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the author of “Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era,” sat down ... How did the African-American experience in the war, ...

With those two words, more than 325 Milton Academy students put their abolitionist sentiments into action in the 1860s, leaving their classrooms to fight in the Civil War. Driven by the principles ...

A new permanent exhibit at historic Main Hall on the former Milton College campus showcases how more than 325 Milton Academy students left their classrooms to fight in the Civil ...