Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Union commanders then sent in the African Americans of the Fourth Division. They fought valiantly, moving beyond the trapped soldiers and nearly breaking through the line before being forced to ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by ... give dignity to these long-ignored and forgotten African American soldiers," Holly K. Norton, the state archaeologist ...

“Some 36 Black Union soldiers – primarily from Maryland ... Hearns said many of those formally enslaved African Americans went to look for family members who had been sold off.

Over a million Africans who were called to service by colonial powers took part in the war. Many never returned – and those ...

When Congress declared that slaves who enlisted in the Union Army would be forever free, African Americans seized the opportunity and rushed to join. The Corning Museum of Glass The Incredible ...

A long-running border dispute between Sierra Leone and Guinea has flared again, after a military incident forced villagers to ...

Union commanders then sent in the African Americans of the Fourth Division. They fought valiantly, moving beyond the trapped soldiers and nearly breaking through the line before being forced to ...