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Serving Those Who Serve: The role of African-American soldiers during the Battle of Ft ...

One thing you should know is that many of the thousands of Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army during the Battle of ...
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Speaker shares glimpse of Civil War soldier’s life through letters

FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS — Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army Museum speaker series lecture Feb. 26, 2025, ...
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Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...
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Afro Union Civil War soldiers honored at March Corprew Memorial Cemetery

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...
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The Fate of Civil War Soldiers' Bodies

There was no plan for the dead during the American Civil War. Mass graves or leaving them where they fell would only go so ...
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This Classic Boomer Meal Has Roots In The American Civil War

This classic meal that once featured in Boomer meals seemingly everywhere actually has roots that go way farther back to the ...
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Roundtable to talk Civil War U.S. Colored troops

The Ohio Valley Civil War Roundtable has announced its upcoming meeting. The event is scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. on ...
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Honoring Black Civil War soldiers: Kentucky town shining light on 5th US colored cavalry

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.But the history of the Bryan family farm dates back more than ...
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Six Civil War soldiers receive long-overdue gravestones at Allegan's Oakwood Cemetery

ALLEGAN, Mich. — Six local soldiers of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Friends of Allegan’s Oakwood Cemetery ...
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Descendants of Civil War veterans clean Union soldiers’ headstones at Lawrence’s ...

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...
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Arizona film tax credit helped create Western based on Civil War battle at Picacho Peak

The bipartisan Arizona film tax credit program has been embroiled in a legal battle over its constitutionality. Less than $1 ...
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Williamsburg museum found 4 Confederate soldiers’ remains. It’s trying to identify them

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP/WAVY) — Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye ...