The spectacle would have been unimaginable at the beginning of the Civil War. Black Confederate soldiers were on parade in Capitol Square. Beside the building where the Confederate Congress had ...

Did thousands of African Americans serve under arms as soldiers in the Confederate Army? The notion has been popularized in recent years, in popular books and even in Ang Lee's 1999 Civil War film ...

Almost 2.4 million soldiers fought in the Civil War – about 1.56 million for the North and probably 800,000 for the South (records for the Confederate are incomplete). Estimates of the total ...

After the Civil War “it would have been hard for any Confederate to acknowledge knowing or seeing any black soldiers,” Levin said. “The myth of the black Confederate soldier is a recent myth ...

Two Civil War soldiers who infiltrated Confederate territory to steal a train and destroy the enemy railroad system were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday ...

T he last significant Civil War battle in Jefferson County took place in August 1864 at Smithfield Crossing, a five-day slog between Union and Confederate forces that left some 300 casualties and ...

Staff members from the Colonial Williamsburg museum excavating the remains of Confederate soldiers from the Civil War in 2023. AP. 7.

Civil War re-enactors fold American flag near urn containing cremated remains of Union soldier Byron R. Johnson during funeral services Oct. 16, 2024. Author: CBS News, Associated Press ...

A Louisiana resident owns a Civil War photograph ... find out if this could indeed be the only photo of a Confederate woman soldier known ... the only photograph of a Native American ...