Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

After scrutinizing the paper, its size and the ink ... Literacy rates were high on both sides during the Civil War—about 90 percent for Union soldiers, above 80 percent for Confederates.

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

The Civil War was the deadliest war in America’s history. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives, and the conflict had ...

Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

He started looking into the story after he read a paper in 2014 about ... eventually serve during the Civil War. William Bronson may have been the first black soldier to fight for the Union ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... books, pencils and paper to the hospitalized soldiers. More importantly, he lent an ear to the young men who needed a friend.

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ... He started looking into the story after he read a paper in 2014 about a regiment of recently freed ...