On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared ... Forrest's men shot and killed a number of unarmed soldiers and officers, both black and white. If the Confederates hoped such executions ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War ... While Black women were not allowed to officially enlist as soldiers ...

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Rev. Floyd White III saluting a tombstone in the historic Butler Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey / Credit: CBS Philadelphia The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who ...

The white officers who led the charge ... is just a small part of the history of black soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War battle has a more compelling claim to a place ...

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...

(WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the ... "They gave their lives for us, Black and white," Miller said. A historical marker has ...

The cemetery is the final resting place for men who escaped slavery to fight in the Union Army in the Civil War, Buffalo soldiers from the Spanish-American war and matriarchs of the Black families ...

Dempsey Daniel Butler arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1840s. An abolitionist and ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad, Butler opened a general store in the city. Through his business ...