Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black ... Douglass met with Lincoln and urged him to protect Black soldiers from Confederate threats by retaliating “in kind and ...

After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers returned ... As in New Orleans and Charleston, civil rights activists have pushed to remove Confederate monuments, including the Talbot Boys ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will ... Inc. on the removal of Richmond’s Confederate monuments years earlier.

Karl Puckett [email protected] The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned ... the Navy as part its blockade of Confederate state ports.

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact ...

Lee, the Confederate general who led southern forces during the Civil War. In a 1998 feature on high ... hurled racial slurs while beating a Black student who caused a disturbance outside a ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

It would be like trading a red MAGA hat for a Black Lives Matter ... all who fought in the Civil War, regardless of their allegiance to the Union or the Confederacy. Perhaps, it could be moved ...