Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in ... After reaching out to the institution, West Point history ...
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Thaddeus Stevens tried to reunite a kidnapped Black family [The Scribbler]
The Thaddeus Stevens Museum’s expansion on Chambersburg Street next month will include an exhibit about the kidnapping of ...
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Ohio legislation to recognize all black women’s unit that served during World War 2
an all-Black women’s unit that served during World War II. Ohio House Bill 204, co-sponsored with State Representative Erika White, will establish March 9th of each year in Ohio as a day to ...
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Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link once directed readers to ...