This is one of the many little-known tales that black Civil War re-enactors are keeping alive as the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict.

The black reenactor community is much smaller than the broader Civil War reenactor movement: At its peak in the 1990s, there were no more than 1,000 black reenactors across the country, said Hari ...

The re-enactors speculate that blacks may have had various reasons to serve for the South during the Civil War. Many slaves were forced to build Confederate fortifications or served in non-combat ...

Some days, though, Greer gets more than his share of stares. That’s because he’s among a few dozen black Civil War re-enactors in Georgia. “I think it’s important to tell the story of ...

Civil War re-enactors James White, center, his son, Jayden, left, ... many black re-enactors got started after watching the 1989 movie “Glory,” about a USCT regiment, ...

Calvin Osborne, center, president of the Black Civil War reenactment group 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company B, with other Civil War reenactors in 2014.

Nearly 10,000 Civil War re-enactors have descended on Manassas, Va., this weekend to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run. The vast majority will be white; no blacks are ...

Re-enactors pray on the beach on Morris Island in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, in a ceremony honoring the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Wednesday was the 149th ...

Black female Civil War reenactors give history’s hidden figures new voices. April 14, 2017. Members of the Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, from left, Bobbie Coles, Sandra Wilson, ...

He says so often people want to “deny or denigrate” the service of Black Civil War soldiers. Reenactment is more than running around on battlefields, camping out like they did 150 years ago.

For black Civil War re-enactors, a calling by BRUCE SMITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | August 29, 2010 at 3:55 a.m. SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C.