Brad Edgerton takes particular pride in one simple gesture amid his great-great-grandfather’s many accomplishments: After commanding a regiment of Black soldiers during the Civil War ...

They were elegant Navy artillery pieces, with an anchor insignia likely stamped on the ... There, in the chaos of the Civil War’s first major battle, the guns were lost to the enemy.

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...