Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle ... fought alongside white troops from the 10th Illinois Cavalry and the 23rd Iowa Infantry. The most seasoned of the black ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty.

The first retired military African-Americans to come to Colorado were former "Buffalo Soldiers" - black cavalry regiments who fought in the Indian wars. But the post-Civil War cattle drives brought ...

At the time, Jackson had been providing daily care for Bolin, a widower who served as a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry through the Civil War. Because the war veteran "did not believe in ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

Steffon Jones, a Youngstown historian and Civil War reenactor ... Indians who fought against the soldiers referred to the black cavalry troops as “Buffalo Soldiers” because of their dark ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle ... fought alongside white troops from the 10th Illinois Cavalry and the 23rd Iowa Infantry. The most seasoned of the black ...

African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in their own country. James Yates was an African-American who decided to ...