New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Black men weren’t allowed guns in the early Civil War. He fired one anyway. Lewis A. Bell, who fired a gun at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia in 1861, is believed to be the Union Army ...

He had won his freedom by the time the Civil War began in 1861. When the Union Army began forming all-Black regiments in 1863, Beaty was eager to join. He became a first sergeant in the 5th U.S ...

Nearby, the headstones of 58 Black soldiers, mostly Union veterans from the Civil War. Some names are fading away. You don’t find other monuments like this one in the South.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.