Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

(WRIC) — A new tour is available at Fort Harrison which includes the ... Ranger Gorman was re-reading “Black Civil War ...

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

White - Author ... he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers, in part because he had “no ...

After the Civil War, however ... the Treaty of Fort Laramie granted the Sioux nation ownership of the Black Hills, which were considered sacred grounds for the Sioux (also known as the Lakota ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War ... the Civil War often took on new roles and du… Local historian Kerry Altenbernd talked about the 1856 Battle of Black Jack in Kansas ...

Southern states, according to the study, saw 13.1% of their U.S.-born, military-age, white males ... restores Fort Benning name to Georgia military base Stephen Berry, a Civil War historian ...