American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

ranking among the top 15% of Union regiments in days of combat. Kankakee Valley Historical Society and Chesterton High School teacher Bob DeRuntz, who hosts a two-day living history Civil War Camp ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War ... The Union victory was widely celebrated. Newspapers from Boston to Wisconsin reported ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

The free-to-attend event had a handful of speakers that covered topics like regiments that ... important during the Civil War because it kept supplies going to the Union troops.” ...

Fletcher was well known across the Magic City. He was hired as a letter carrier in 1892, the first African American to work ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...