As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

TUPELO – Attorney Brian Neely has long been a practitioner of the law. Since 2012, he’s served as assistant district attorney for the First Judicial District of Mississippi. It’s clear he has a love ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called “The United States Colored Troops” at the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research ...

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

For the first two years of the American Civil War, supporters of the North seemed to hear almost solely about battle victories by the South. “You have to imagine how terrified people became when the ...