The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Not long after, a young Confederate soldier—having joined ... Cook had virtually no interest in the Civil War until 1987, when she toured the battle site at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

A battered diary from World War I was just found in a barn in England. It recounts the horrific Battle of the Somme, the ...

THIS is the strange moment Russian soldiers are caught riding into war on e-scooters before they are blasted by Ukrainian drones. Three of Vladimir Putin's terror ...

Army photo/Screenshot from ‘Glory’ A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as the finale of the 1989 movie “Glory” has been scrubbed from a ...

Stunt coordinator Cory DeMeyers breaks down the Civil War battle that opened season 4 and explains how it was designed to ...

Karl Puckett [email protected] The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned ... which concluded with the deadly Battle of Fort Wagner at Charleston Harbor ...

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

The Army has identified the fourth soldier who died during a training in Lithuania as a 28-year-old man from Battle Creek ... Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal ...