History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Karl Puckett [email protected] The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned ... and Port Royal and also Georgia and Florida. When the regiment formed ...

Hundreds of Civil War soldiers are among those buried at St ... Gail Palmer, a retired newspaper reporter in Florida, has also come to view the Civil War and her own family through fresh eyes.

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 ...

In this blog post, Jabour explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War. 'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil ...

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 City of Beaufort is working on designs for a new park to honor the first black civil war soldiers who fought on the ...

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ... Beaufort and Port Royal and also Georgia and Florida. When the regiment formed, some 10,000 slaves ...