These soldiers, part of the U.S. 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 from ...

After the Civil War ... (Some slaveholders accepted the Union’s offer of $300 per man to let them go.) After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers returned to Talbot County—including ...

The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...

With nothing planned at Locust Hill African Cemetery for the 160th anniversary of the end to the Civil War, not that such a ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

Arthur, who died two years ago, was a direct descendant of Peter Jacob Carter, who fought for the Union in the Civil War after escaping ... s life. “The Black community here knew of Peter ...

70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia, where the 69 soldiers and one ...

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ... that was the first Black unit to fight for the Union Army in the Civil War. At the time he was ...

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 ...