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William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.
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Rare Civil War flag sold at Columbus auction for $468,000 - MSNCOLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month ...
A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.
The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
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 ...
The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...
ELWOOD - Union soldier Ezra Coder escaped from the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Ga., only to be recaptured and returned to Andersonville.
In response to the Mother Emanual AME shooting in Charleston, SC, lawmakers and protestors rallied to bring down the ...
Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...
The headstone of John E. Wiegel is seen Monday in Irwin’s Union Cemetery, where members of the Sons of Union Veterans and Civil War reenactors gathered to honor Wiegel as the last known Union ...
Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...
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