He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans ... resting place in Maine. In South Carolina, the remains of 21 Confederate ...

To experience one of the most significant sites in America's long and storied history, tourists should take a trip to South ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

The Citadel's alumni include veterans of many wars, from the Civil War and World War II to more recent conflicts. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is a public institution that ...

He spent a decade in the US House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned ...

location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...