Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Medal of Honor recipient depicted in movie ‘Glory’ erased from Pentagon website
Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Stealing valor from Black soldiers, families
The military is not just a chapter in my life. It’s my bloodline, my inheritance, and my foundation. My father, Floyd McAfee, was a career Army officer. My uncles fought in World War II. My younger ...
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One-fourth of federal staff fired at Civil War site that housed Black Union soldiers in KY
That’s roughly 25% of the 13-member staff at the Civil War site that at one point housed 10,000 Black Union soldiers. The cuts were part of a national effort by President Donald Trump’s ...
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Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery in Minneapolis named to Underground Railroad Network
Hare was a black Union soldier during the American Civil War before re-enlisting with the Buffalo soldiers. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...