A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) are ...

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A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Archaeologists were on site of a historical dig on Monday to locate the grave of a lost Civil War infantry. A company of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Calvary ...

Not all men who went off to fight for the Union came back as heroes. Some came back, eventually, as deserters. There were no parades for them, though many had fought for the Union for months or years, ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - MAY 25: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternate crop) Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place flags at the headstones of U.S. military personnel buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ...

Archaeologists believe they have found two mass graves of Black Union soldiers in Kentucky thanks to remote sensing techniques and the dogged work of a local historian, allowing them to tell the story ...