Discover key resources and expert tips for researching Southeast Missouri veterans from the Spanish-American War through ...

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

The soldiers, who were farmers, served in the 20th and 26th regiments of the United States Colored Troops and survived the ...

Of the nearly 2.7 million servicemembers who joined the United States military to fight for the Union during the American Civil War, Major George Washington “G.W.” Rue had a unique claim to fame.

A new Civil War Trails marker was unveiled, on Nov. 14, 2025, in Hurricane, Putnam County, West Virginia at the site of an ...

Union Army Sgt. Joseph H. White, interred in a now-abandoned cemetery in 1916, will have a permanent headstone placed at his ...

Zach Nunamaker, of Momence, gave a presentation on Iroquois County soldiers who served in the two largest Illinois infantries ...

C olonel Robert Gould Shaw was the 25-year-old leader of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first official African ...

The event tonight will focus on the role Black men in Connecticut played during the nation's war for independence.

Ken Burns new PBS documentary reminds us how bloody an messy the revolution was. When the myths are stripped away, though, it ...

On the evening of June 10, 1953, Markley briefed his men from K Company, 15th Infantry Regiment before sending them to their posts. His roughly 150 soldiers would defend a hilltop outpost barely 400 ...

Some listeners were startled; a newspaper reporter later wrote that Lincoln’s speech “passed unnoticed by many”; another ...