These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

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 ...

Shannon’s short film “Rock Island Prison 1864” follows the character Shiloh, a Black Union soldier who was enslaved, who encounters his former owner held at the prison after Shiloh arrives ...

Among their targets are Black soldiers, who have been a center–and ... for African Americans to have the right to join the Union Army. Many died in those first units just to prove their worth ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

The European Union, EU, has told Russia that there will be no end to the sanctions it is currently facing until Moscow withdraws its soldiers from ...