The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... This time they were accepted into all-black units. The first of these was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, led by white ...

Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.

In the meantime, the Civil War Trust has listed New Market Heights ... notably the “Harlem Hellfighters,” a black regiment that gave no ground, lost no prisoners, and, having stayed on the ...

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

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

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My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil War Memorial in ...

On February 17, 1919, tens of thousands of New Yorkers welcomed home the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment with a massive ... the African-American experience in the war, and in the postwar period, ...

It commemorates the service and sacrifice of Black troops in Arkansas during the Civil War, focusing on the 1st and 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiments. The museum's mission is to preserve the ...

The regular, peacetime army was all-white, and the demands on the Union for more troops in the Civil War saw the creation of many special all-Black regiments, one of which was portrayed in the mov ...