LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -Upgrades to Lynn Haven’s Monument Park, which features a statue of a Union Soldier facing North, are now completed. Park updates include new landscaping, walking paths, ...

A monument honoring 70 Black Union soldiers is coming to Downtown Rocky Mount, Virginia. A monument honoring 70 Black Union soldiers who fought for the U.S. in the Civil War will be unveiled at the ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...

BE FORGOTTEN. >> THE TRUTH HAS TO BE TOLD BECAUSE REZ FOR SO LONG, FOLK HAVE BEEN FORCED TO BELIEVE A LIE. >> VISITORS WALK AMONG THE SOIL THAT UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS ONCE SHED THEIR SOULS AND ...

He never came home. He was 26 years old with a wife and young daughter who would never see him again, never know fully what ...

BOSTON (AP) — The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside on their way to battle. For L’Merchie Frazier, the ...

Aug. 13—Few people can waste time and money like Mayor Alan Webber and a collection of city councilors. After almost four years of foundering and squandering $265,000 on consultants, they want to ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Santa Fe city councilors, residents, and indigenous communities debated a resolution on Wednesday to relocate a controversial monument from the Santa Fe plaza to a cemetery.

VICKSBURG, Miss. -- Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and '50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

Charles Albert Storke of Wisconsin was 16 when he joined the Union army in February 1864. He was assigned to Company G of the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which was sent to Virginia that May.