The Washington Informer1d
Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill in August 2024 that will celebrate Small’s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State House grounds. Born into bondage, Smalls stole a Confederate ship during the ...
MORE TO THE STORY: A Civil War hero in Stewart
Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...
Smithsonian Magazine21d
A Civil War Tour: Echoes of the Past
3D Preview of Petra by Virtual Wonders (00:40) Discovery of the Lake Serpent in Lake Erie (01:38) When Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Is a Civil War Hero (28:53) ...
The Columbian6d
Southwest Washington’s Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War commemorate new officers
Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War gathered at the Clark County Historical Museum recently to commemorate the installment of new officers for the General John W. Sprague C ...
Morning Star11d
Tremendous Townsend production celebrates Spanish civil war heroes
Commissioned by the International Brigades Memorial Trust and financially supported by Unite and other trade unions, Dare Devil also tells a wider story of the 2,500 British and Irish volunteer heroes ...
LancasterOnline28d
This week's good things: A research trip to Finland, a Civil War hero's cemetery plot and good news at McCaskey and Donegal [editorial]
Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, one of the Union's most important leaders during the Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg. The plot and its monument, however, are in disrepair, much of it ...