The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves of a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle only had the name of ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... at places such as Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and Saltville and Petersburg, both in Virginia. Still, through all of the madness ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

Later, given the racist Jim Crow laws enacted after Reconstruction, there would have been considerable resistance in the South ... soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War ...

He spent a decade in the US House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then ... while hoping Confederate soldiers didn’t notice ...

He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then ... hoping Confederate soldiers didn’t notice a ...

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a ... It sent the most troops to fight in the Civil War as part of the Confederacy before it was readmitted into the ...

South Korean intelligence has found that North Korea has dispatched 12,000 troops including special operation forces to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, news reports said Friday.

Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would ...