For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...
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 ... more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ...
The Civil War had begun ... the willingness of black soldiers to fight. Soon other regiments were being formed, and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops.
The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States, the War Against Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution ... of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege ...
The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.
While white generals are often at the center of Civil War archival research, Black Civil War veterans and their families ...
The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...
On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina. The fierce assault against the Confederate Army—portrayed in the film Glory ...