No fewer than 14 African-American soldiers were awarded the Medal ... For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War. Johnny Clem might ... Yet for some Southern children — African American slaves — this brutal war meant freedom. Even before the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has ... s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State House grounds.