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 ...

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 ...

Matt VanAcker said the conservation efforts will allow visitors to view the flag as it was when it returned to the county in ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - The Rock Island National Cemetery will hosted a ceremony Monday honoring the soldiers of the 108th United States Colored Troops (USCT). The 108th USCT was honored by an ...

Civil War reenactor Larry Harris, of Philadelphia, right, marches past the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial, left, that commemorates the famed Civil War unit made up of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Calvin Osborne has always been fascinated by the Civil War. But growing up in the American Midwest, the Civil War battlegrounds were far and few between. The bloody story of how America turned upon ...

(WFSB) - Connecticut has an interesting connection to Juneteenth. At a point during the Civil War, the state had two all-Black state military regiments, made up of newly freed slaves. They helped ...