This video is no longer available. The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, ...

Every nation has a story that is retold with the words – it was the darkest time in our history. For the United States, that ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

John Clem was barely nine years old when he followed Union troops into the American Civil War. Rejected repeatedly because of ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) - - A bill to dedicate a stretch of M-22 in Peshawbestown to Native American volunteer Civil War soldiers of Company K remains stalled in the Michigan House, ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. More than 200,000 men are listed as a part of the regiment at the National Archives.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A long-overlooked chapter of Franklin County’s history is now etched in bronze. Community members gathered Sunday afternoon on the grounds of First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount ...

A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...

On June 8, 1864, Captain Dexter Ludden and his men from the 8th New York Heavy Artillery were picking their way through corpses. They had been assigned the unpleasant task of burying some of the many, ...