Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled with Union troops, many of them from the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry, on a mission to strike Confederate plantations. There to guide them ...

How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History," by Howell Raines, (Crown ...