Unrest on the Schuylkill homefront during the Civil War

Schuylkill County can certainly be proud of coming to the defense of the Union during the Civil War. Two Pottsville militia ...
WVTF

Statue honoring Black Union soldiers unveiled in Rocky Mount

Franklin County residents and the local branch NAACP unveiled a monument Sunday to 70 Black men from the county who fought ...
Military.com

How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...
Black Enterprise

Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal

A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) are ...
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...
Marietta Times

Civil War Roundtable: Hunter’s retreat through West Virginia subject of presentation

A presentation about the retreat from Lynchburg and Gen. David Hunter will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 at the Knights of ...
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Speaker shares glimpse of Civil War soldier’s life through letters

FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS — Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army Museum speaker series lecture Feb. 26, 2025, ...
WDIO

Meet the last ever Civil War veteran

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...