A member of one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, formed after the Civil War, he trained West Point cadets in ...

Rebel groups have launched the largest offensive in years against government forces, capturing the city of Aleppo.

Bowdoin history indicates that 128 of the town's young men marched off to fight in the Civil War and many lost their lives.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants have taken control of “the majority of the city,” according to The Syrian Observatory of Human ...

Hubert McNamara, leaving behind a wife and three children in Ireland, died in the bloody slaughter of Cold Harbor. The ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

Born in 1832 or 1833 to a white plantation owner and an enslaved Black woman, Lewis came to New Orleans from Mississippi ...

A small team of social scientists at New York University-Abu Dhabi has conducted what they describe as a more accurate ...

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It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...