SHARPSBURG, Md. (Sept. 17, 2009) -- The remains of a Union Civil War Soldier found at the Antietam National Battlefield here will be buried today in his home state of New York on the 147th anniversary ...

Jonathan W. White was in California on another book project when he happened across the diaries of George Buswell. In the online catalog it said Buswell had served in Memphis, which he was researching ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the team instead first came across the eye sockets of a human skull, according to ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...

PROVIDENCE − Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. On Saturday, June 21, they will be honored as the community marks Juneteenth. "I think it's ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren't from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

Though the Civil War is usually remembered in black and white, seeing it in color brings the period to life in a whole new way. From soldiers’ uniforms and weapons to the weathered and defeated faces ...

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' ...