When we think of the American Civil War, the division between Americans in the North and the South comes to mind. But it ...

Civil War hero, Medal of Honor recipient buried in Pueblo to be honored Oct. 29. James Bartolo. The Pueblo Chieftain. When members of the Retired Enlisted Association's Pueblo chapter saw Warren C ...

Civil War soldier and medal recipient William Harvey Carney, best known for holding the American flag high during the Union’s July 1863 assault on Battery Wagner at Morris Island near Charleston ...

We can recognize the events and people of the Civil War and remember them without glorifying, honoring or raising bronze statues in places of honor to the losers who precipitated that war.

But once the Civil War started, the Confederates seized it for use as an armed transport vessel. Smalls knew how to navigate. He knew that the white crew trusted him.

A 19th-century reenactor with the Naper Settlement as a boy, Oswego High School teacher Michael Leali uses the story of a trans man who fought with the Illinois 95th Infantry during the Civil War ...

RELATED: Union Baptist Cemetery and its Black Civil War heroes. The move would mean Powhaten Beaty will finally get the recognition he earned. Beaty was born enslaved in Virginia.

Oswego’s links to the Civil War are in the spotlight, thanks to groups like the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. A large group of volunteers have been working recently at the Oswego T… ...

After 13 years of sitting in a closet, a portrait of Black Reconstruction-era state senator and Civil War hero Stephen Swails is hung in the statehouse. Be the first to know.