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Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...
Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a ...
Brennan will speak about at least two of the soldiers, including Cpl ... be members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, from New York and Rhode Island. "We're going to have members ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...
The story of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, aka Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, one of up to 1,000 women who posed as men to fight in the Civil ...
For two days in June, a field adjacent to the Delaware County Historical Association will be transformed into the rugged ...
Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the ...
Dennard Dayle’s satirical new book, “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier ...
In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War Letters are brought to life by stars including Laura Dern, Common and Michael ...
Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.
They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil ... soldiers too wounded for travel were placed in homes and a church, which was converted into a hospital. A surgeon from New York ...