The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...

Bennett Place State Historic Site in NC commemorates Civil War surrender and slavery's end with a two-day event.

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil ... War soldiers known as the 1st South ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

As the Union blockade squeezed the Confederate coast during the Civil War, Fort Fisher in North Carolina took on ever ... an assault of an estimated 8,500 soldiers carried by a large fleet ...

About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham Lincoln surrendered Fort Sumter, as South Carolina demanded ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

In Word War I alone, according to the CWGC, British forces employed around 50,000 African soldiers and more than ... Graves at Nakuru North Cemetery [Gioia Shah/Al Jazeera] The Nakuru North ...

A powerful earthquake strikes Myanmar and Thailand, causing destruction and claiming more than 150 lives. Recovery efforts ...