Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

the legendary “Fighting 69th,” i.e., Meagher’s Irish Brigade of the American Civil War. The Meagher in question was Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher (August 3, 1823-July 1 ...

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil ... American soldiers who came after them. In World War I, most black troops were relegated to strictly segregated units ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

The 1861-1865 American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...

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

American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ... which tells the story of the units who fought in the Battle of Forks Road. A new exhibit, "The Impending Crisis," helps visitors ...