At the time of the Civil War ... were America’s first pictorial war correspondents. They were young men (none were women) from diverse backgrounds—soldiers, engineers, lithographers and ...

Others show how a loved one was cherished through a photograph. This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have helped generations since in ...

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) challenges visual documentation that excluded Black subjects from a ...

Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army ...

On the back side of the stone there’s an inscription for Wesley Ford, a 16-year-old who died at the Battle of the Wilderness ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called “The United States Colored Troops” at the Rolland Center for Lincoln ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil ... by the war’s end most surgeons agreed on the efficacy of chloroform and there was consensus that it was a “soldier’s ...

A historical marker commemorating Black soldiers who fought for the Union in Arkansas during the Civil War was dedicated ...