Black’s book on Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid, launched from Beaufort in June 1863, earned a Pulitzer Prize in ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

George H. Cramer, German immigrant and Civil War major, helped shape Cape Girardeau as mayor, postmaster and civic leader, ...

During the Civil War, soldiers didn't have the same kind of access to quality rations that troops do today. Back then, they ...

Abigail Adams was the wife of Founding Father and second president John Adams. She famously asked him to “remember the ladies ...

Read the Sullivan Ballou letter and learn more about the background of it. Ironically, Sullivan Ballou's letter was never mailed.

A 125th anniversary of historic Grandview Cemetery in Salem was observed Saturday. The celebration included a discussion of ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

In the latest edition of A Look at the Archives, Ashley Large introduces "Rebellion Records," a state mandated log of men serving in the military during the Civil War and "the fates that befell them." ...

Born in Culpeper in 1780s, Joseph and Reubin among "nine young men from Kentucky" recruited to Corps of Discovery, were expert hunters, woodsmen.