Learn more about the role of black troops during the Civil War at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W.

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army.

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

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It takes its name not from the percussion instrument, but from Lt. Col. Richard Coulter Drum, the Adjutant General based in ...

A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) are ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

Franklin County residents and the local branch NAACP unveiled a monument Sunday to 70 Black men from the county who fought ...

The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most unique feuds came in the ...