New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype of a young master and his slave, Silas Chandler, who fought together in ...

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 ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

Guthrie said the Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial exhibit commemorates Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th, one of the first Civil War regiments of African Americans enlisted in the North.

Dean Calbreath of San Diego will discuss his 2023 book “The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said” when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, at ...

Mention Fort Wagner and the student of the Civil War can give you a virtual blow-by-blow description of the regiment’s most famous fight. But how many of those who know so much about Colonel Robert ...

The monument is also a way to honor more than 209,000 African American soldiers who fought during the Civil War, but whose bravery was later forgotten, said Sanchez-Dekarske.

Unlike the American military at the time, the force mixed white and Black volunteers in the same units. Among the African-American volunteers was Fort Worth’s own Theodore Gibbs.