On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American ... s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would stand ...
African American Veterans have heroically fought in US wars, starting with the Revolutionary War in 1775 ... and disregard for their basic civil rights. The monument site features commemorative ...
the first D.C. monument dedicated to a person of color, and the African American Civil War Museum. Other can't-miss activities include viewing the original Emancipation Proclamation at the ...
The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was ...
Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...
State lawmaker wants to add security for Confederate monuments not just related to the Civil War. It comes as South Carolina ...
particularly in helping win the Civil War. In Washington a monument has been created to memorialize the 180,000 African American men in the Army and their 20,000 comrades in the Navy, both for their ...