Why was the Civil War fought in blue and gray? Discover how logistics, chemical dyes, and battlefield confusion shaped the ...

Stones River National Battlefield preserves the site of a pivotal Civil War clash that shaped the Union’s control of Middle ...

What do bullet holes, the signature of a relative of Abraham Lincoln, Native American carvings, and the names of Union and ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. More than 200,000 men are listed as a part of the regiment at the National Archives.

A historical marker commemorating Black soldiers who fought for the Union in Arkansas during the Civil War was dedicated Saturday in the presence of several descendants of Union fighters at the ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for the ...

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 ...

Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to join the 2nd Michigan Infantry's Company F, known as the Flint Union Greys.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- When Paul Davis heard earlier this year that the complete remains of two Civil War soldiers had been uncovered recently at Manassas National Battlefield, mixed among severed limbs in ...

SIMPSONVILLE, KENTUCKY—Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On January 25, 1865, a company of Black Union Soldiers ...