The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table will host two programs in February, a virtual program Feb. 19 on African American soldiers’ contributions in the Civil War, and an in-person presentation ...

A small American flag marks the grave of a Civil War soldier of the United States 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent) in Vicksburg National Cemetery, Feb. 14, 2024, in Vicksburg, Miss ...

A tiny album at the Smithsonian's African American History museum shows photos of black Civil War soldiers. The images inspired portraits on exhibit at Fort Negley in Nashville.

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

In 2000, Frank Smith, a Newnan native and a longtime Washington, D.C., city councilman, opened the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum near Howard University, attracting about 150,000 ...

Almost 2.4 million soldiers fought in the Civil War – about 1.56 million for the North and probably 800,000 for the South (records for the Confederate are incomplete). Estimates of the total ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia, where ...

Our American family — my family — survived one Civil War. Can we make it through another? With Confederate soldiers on one side and Union soldiers on the other, my family shows how our ...

That brick wall is what The Kentucky African American Civil War Soldier Project hopes to demolish. And Gediman and Peyton hope it won't stop with Kentucky. ...

Black Civil War soldiers, ... “African American men — including more than 200 from Long Island — played a significant part in securing the Union’s victory in the Civil War,” said ...

Small American flags stand by the graves of Civil War soldiers of the United States 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent) in Vicksburg National Cemetery, Feb. 14, 2024, in Vicksburg, Miss ...