The exhibit is open now and spotlights the vital role Black soldiers played in the Civil War. It features Lincoln-era ...

The sculpture honoring soldiers who fought with the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War was being installed at Wilmington's Cameron Art Museum ... big community man, the man who ...

Several other Black soldiers were awarded the medal during or soon after the Civil War for valor, while Carney’s came in 1900. But his actions at Fort Wagner are the earliest by a Black soldier ...

"African Americans in Tallahassee: The Civil War ... Black Tallahassee residents of historical interest are an integral feature of the exhibition." Among them are Antonio Proctor, a freed Black ...

A small American flag marks the grave of a Civil War soldier of the United States ... read the name of each man — Black and white — as he poured water into a pot of soil and grass, a small ...

Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops ... resident got the shock of her life last November. A man who was at a Cincinnati cemetery spotted Hart ...

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history ... read the name of each man — Black and white — as he poured water ...

“They were regarded as intruders and denounced as idle, profligate and criminal classes with whom a self-respecting white man could not afford to associate,” Woodson wrote of the Black people ...

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history ... read the name of each man — Black and white — as he poured water ...