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30 Black Civil War veterans added to downtown monument
A single black plaque featuring two rows of 15 names has been added to the Civil War memorial on the downtown Jacksonville square. Those named were Black soldiers from Jacksonville who fought for the ...
Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...
The evening ceremony was held at the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) plot sponsored by the William E. Carter American Legion Post #16, the Massachusetts Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and ...
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
If Mirsad “Mike” Causevic is successful, a 12-foot-tall statue on the Northwest Side will honor 3,176 people killed in his ...
President Trump’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites has come under legal scrutiny, as some suggest his decision to ...