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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 ...
A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...
For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...
Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...
was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...
It includes a small vignette portrait of Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union soldier to die in the Civil War and the leader of a Zouave regiment and a friend of Lincoln. In appropriate fashion ...
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 Carolina ...
allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army.