A solider, National Archives What Lincoln didn't know was whether the North was ready to accept white and black men ... Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle.

You couldn’t own a cannon during the Civil War,” the 81-year-old president ... they need F-15s.” The White House did not ...

When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in Legion Park was showing signs of disrepair, they decided to use some of the money they received ...