The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and '50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

Confederate soldiers, brothers fighting on opposing sides and more than 100 veterans buried in Australia — these are just a few of the surprises uncovered by Robert Farrell, a retired aerospace ...