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New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...
On July 25 and 26, the national monument will celebrate Camp Nelson's 160th anniversary with a special guided tour featuring ...
President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union ...
Beneath the weeds lie Charles Conrad, Nathaniel Ferris, Andrew Jackson, Charles Riley, William Johnson, George McClain, ...
Bishop Chester Thompson spoke to the Camden Noon Lion's Club last week about local history and the work the Zion Hill Summer ...
Thanks to Utah Cultural Site Stewardship, these men who played an important role in Utah history are getting a chance to take ...
Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...
On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...
Adams, formerly Fort Lee, was in 2023 the first Army base to be named for Black Americans. Now, it'll be the first named for a Buffalo Solider.
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.
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.
Going back to the 19th Century, just after the Civil War, the “Buffalo Soldiers” were the first African American army regiments in the U.S. Peacetime Army, with four stationed out of Fort Davis.