Denzel Washington reenacted the heroics of Sgt. William Carney in the movie "Glory." The Pentagon removed a story about him ...

Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent. Thus the creation of the 54th Regiment. By 1863, the Union realized it had a manpower pool of free African Americans and ex-slaves.

The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...

African American soldiers have had a big impact on the Central Coast. Buffalo Soldiers built the Presidio of Monterey, Fort ...

Robert Gould Shaw was the white commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which entered battle in mid-1863. Shaw was killed soon after at Fort Wagner and buried with his comrades by ...

"The Sarah Sands was a steamer which caught fire while taking the 54th Regiment (now part of the Devon and Dorsets) to India during the Mutiny in 1857. According to the account by Rudyard Kipling ...