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 ...

The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...

Carter, founder of the Union Civil War Soldier Monument Advisory and Implementation Committee, and Scott, a member of Northampton’s historical society, had proposed that a monument to the area ...

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

One of these soldiers was Byron Johnson, a hospital steward for the Union Army, who was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in ...

The program will hear from the personal journal of Lee, Goss’s great-grandfather, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Lee was responsible for procuring food and supplies for Union soldiers.

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army.