The U.S. military has a budget of nearly $1.5 trillion and almost 800 facilities across the world, so why are there so many ...

Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ... that free Black men had enjoyed voting rights in North Carolina from 1776 to 1835. They asked him “to finish ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. It was a pivotal moment in American history, and one of the ...

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 ...

Mercer County Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 200 Civil War veterans, hosted commemoration services for the 160th ...

The city of Beaufort, South Carolina is planning to turn six acres of land into The South Carolina Volunteers of African ...

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

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 ...