Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...
UN chief: World leaders must speak with one voice to prevent a new civil war in South Sudan
The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...
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Story of Civil War hero taken off federal website
The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney.
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Civil War Veteran Reburied with Honors at Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery
A Union soldier from the Civil War was laid to rest once more in what ... He served for three years in the 19th Infantry Regiment of the United States Colored Troops, fighting in several ...
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‘Rich American history’: L.A. Filmmaker debuts short film about Rock Island Arsenal Prison
As some information about Black veterans disappears from military websites, Rock Island-native and Los Angeles filmmaker Joy ...
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.
At Secretary Davis’s insistence, the new infantry units were armed with ... of Staff responsible for management of the Union Army during the Civil War.6 Increasing tension was soon becoming ...