Reenactors in Civil War clothing take a meal break at the Lions Club food truck with soda, mustard and hand sanitizer. A young boy in the foreground watches Confederate reenactors.

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

Black Confederate pensioners are still a little known chapter of the Civil War and Reconstruction era. ... Re-enactors in Confederate and Union uniforms attended at Curry's request to honor her.

Tom Wing, a University of Arkansas - Fort Smith historian and Civil War reenactor, has portrayed both the Confederate and Union sides in blue and in gray at past Cabin Creek battle reenactments. There ...

A Black Civil War reenactor holds on to his Union Army belt buckle during a ceremony of remembrance at the burial site of 13 soldiers of the 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent), Wednesday ...

During the Civil War, out of the 140,000 people living in Florida, 63,000 were Black.Of those 63,000, 62,000 were enslaved. Florida wasn’t of strategic significance compared to other southern ...

Company B, the reenacting group, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Black Soldiers in the Civil War.

Approximately 50 Civil War re-enactors will be camping at James Madison's Montpelier Aug. 1-3. The re-enactors will participate in a number of drills and activities similar to the estimated 4,500 ...

Black reenactors are so few here that everyone seems to know them by name. White reenactors point them out often — as well as dubious stats about Black slaveholders — to banish the whiff of ...

Civil War reenactors Calvin Osborne, center, and Anthony Jones, left, both of Washington, D.C., and Terry James of Florence stand in formation as they observe the anniversary of Black Union ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. ... I asked Ms. Meador why she thought Black people were uninterested in watching the battle that had secured the South’s defeat.