A Day in the Life of the Civil War

Union Lieutenant Stephen Atkins Swails the first African American to be promoted to an officer was wounded for the second time April 11 th ...

The 1 st Michigan Colored Infantry was formed February 23 rd 1863 at Camp Ward. The editor of the Detroit Tribune and Advertiser, Henry ...

A Corporal in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, James Henry Gooding died July 19th 1864 in Andersonville. James Henry Gooding was born 183...

Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was killed in the assault on the battery of Fort Wagner on July 18th 1863. Robert Gould Shaw was born Oc...

The Washington Race Course Cemetery saw the burial of Union dead and the first Memorial Day on May 1st 1865. Many communities set aside ...