Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states and ...

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The first African American regiment to fight in the Civil War launched an attack on Fort Wagner in the Charleston Harbor on this day in 1863. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry ...

Elijah Wood was an enslaved soldier who fought for the Union in the Civil War and served in the first United States Colored ...

Civil War historian Ben Varner discussed the explosive history of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment recently at the Orwigsburg Historical Society. Explosive, indeed. Members of the unit, made up largely ...

In the preface of his book on the 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, Verel Salmon informs the reader that his work is “a compendium of information on this great group of men and that it is, of course, ...

A group of Black Union Army soldiers from Tazewell County who fought in the American Civil War were honored Wednesday when the county dedicated a stone monument and new historical marker at the ...

The American Civil War was fought between states that supported a national government under a constitution ratified by the voters of the original states and states whose political leaders longed to ...

The soldiers, who were farmers, served in the 20th and 26th regiments of the United States Colored Troops and survived the ...

The best single description of civil war I have ever encountered is a scene from Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”Set during the Spanish Civil War, a Spanish woman loyal to the Republic ...