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A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

They would be welcomed, the Proclamation declared, "into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions ... Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle.

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War, between the North ... James Barrett claimed Fort Yuma on the California-Arizona ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...