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The City of Beaufort is working on designs for a new park to honor the first black civil war soldiers who fought on the city’s soil ...
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...
70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia, where the 69 soldiers and one ...
After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...
The city of Beaufort, South Carolina is planning to turn six acres of land into The South Carolina Volunteers of African ...
Among the obscured pages are cemetery guides focused on Black soldiers, women’s military service and Civil War veterans. Some of the materials were still online Friday, but they were no longer ...
In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.
That’s roughly 25% of the 13-member staff at the Civil War site that at one point housed 10,000 Black Union soldiers. The cuts were part of a national effort by President Donald Trump’s ...