Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
Here’s the origin of the Army’s ‘Redwing’ design on the Mariner Badges
The design of the Mariner Badge includes the Transportation Corps’ “winged wheel,” which symbolizes rail transportation.
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...