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

A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.

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

James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina Colored Volunteers Regiment along the Combahee River. While there, they routed Confederate outposts, destroyed stores of cotton, food and weapons – and ...

The 1861-1865 American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent. Thus the creation of the 54th Regiment. By 1863 ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

He was born in Utica, New York. At the outset of the Civil War, Oley served with the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard.

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Celiz was shot while shielding his comrades from enemy fire as they worked to save an injured ...

During the Civil War, following the Union Army’s occupation ... In 1863, the famed, predominately Black, Massachusetts 54th Regiment landed on St. Simons, effectively ending slavery there.

The trail displays depictions of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment that included Black ... six related families by the end of the Civil War (who) cleared the land, joined the local Baptist ...

Reverend Ira S. Jones was a man driven to do good things in Hampton, New Hampshire. He established the Hampton Cemetery Association and became the founder of the Meeting House Green Memorial and ...