Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

Hari Jones talked about the actions and strategies employed by African Americans in their struggle for freedom, from slave rebellions in the 1830s to enlistment in the Union Army during the Civil War.

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 ...

Grave markers at Prescott Post in Providence's North Burial Ground, where some 300 Civil War veterans are interred, including 52 Black soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union.

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

This marked the first bloodshed in the Civil War, and it was a Black man’s. By 1862, President Lincoln had quietly authorized the Union Army to form Black regiments. Douglass even wrote an early ...

This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on ...

Fassett was part of a wave of more than 1,200 Lower Shore black soldiers who fought in the Civil War on behalf of the Union. Across the North, nearly 190,000 free blacks and former slaves enlisted ...

"African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War" is an exhibit that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.

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 ...

The battle, an unsuccessful assault by Union soldiers against Confederate troops during the American Civil War, took place between July and September 1963, per the American Battlefield Trust.