Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

The Civil War ... to join the Union Army had been rescued from slavery under the leadership of Harriet Ross Tubman...." By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the Union Army ... a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ...

A new open letter has been published in France warning of the threat of civil war and claiming to have ... said to be issued anonymously by soldiers and appealing for public support.

(WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union ... those soldiers. The exhibit is open now and spotlights the vital role Black soldiers played in the Civil War.