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The move is stirring up conversation in and outside military circles. Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine ...
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William Carney didn’t just carry the flag at Fort Wagner—he hauled the soul of a nation on his back through a storm of lead, and never let it fall.
William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.
DES MOINES (AP) With seven descendants of Iowa Civil War soldiers standing at attention, a restored flag carried into the war by an Iowa regiment was placed on display at the Statehouse. Encased ...
A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters from the Stibbs family.
A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...
Most Civil War regiments carried the national colors as well as the regimental colors, which were often brightly colored banners that were locally made. The flags were displayed in the Illinois ...
While metal detecting the historic Port Hudson battlefield, we uncovered Civil War relics that may mark the final position of a fallen cavalry officer. The siege of Port Hudson in 1863 was the ...
Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.
President Donald Trump, speaking about war as he attempts to decide whether or not to actively support Israel by bombing Iran, appeared to confuse America’s war for independence —the Revolutionary War ...
President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday. “The Civil War ...