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 ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

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

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and hospital workers during the Civil War ...

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.

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.