Newly formed Union regiments in the Civil War were typically made up of about 1,000 troops – 97 0 enlistees and 30 officers. In each regiment on this list, more than 200 soldiers were killed or ...

During the Civil War, the Union established and maintained regiments of black soldiers. This became possible in 1862 through passage of the Confiscation Act (freeing the slaves of rebellious ...

Newly formed Union regiments in the Civil War were typically made up of about 1,000 troops – 97 0 enlistees and 30 officers. In each regiment on this list, more than 200 soldiers were killed or ...

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment — the Union's first African-American regiment of the Civil War — fell to Confederate troops at the battle at Fort Wagner, S.C. 150 years ago today.

I will be speaking at the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, DC at 11:00 a.m. on 4 October 2014 during the Descendants’ Hour. List other books you’ve written . Anthracite Coal ...

In May 1863, four months after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the War Department created the Bureau of Colored Troops, which established more than 100 African American regiments.

The 79th New York Highland Regiment grew out of the New York Caledonian Club, ... "There is a lot of collective amnesia about the Scots involvement in the American Civil War," says Eric Graham, ...

It was filmmaker Ken Burns who said, “The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast.

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.

Civil War re-enactor Robert Bell of the 12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery reflects on life for black soldiers ... And while African American regiments never fought in the Battle ...