Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.
One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...
The comments come as legislators make a renewed push to strip protections for transgender Iowans from the state's Civil ...
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
The Civil War reenactment group that is regularly featured throughout the area at events and ceremonies shooting its cannon ...
Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...
Defence spending will be in the headlines this week as Keir Starmer races to Paris for crisis talks over Ukraine.