Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers ... and the African American Civil War ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

Up for auction are fragments of the artillery shells that hammered Fort Sumter’s walls, a scrap of the fort’s battle flag, letters from soldiers ... with the American Civil War, it is of ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, his grandson.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg ... At this point in the war, advancing Allied forces had a doctrine to avoid being bogged down in ...

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was a brutal conflict that threatened to tear the country apart. While the Union ultimately prevailed over the Confederacy, the lasting ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...