Local author Kevin Yaney led a free Civil War Veterans walking tour last Saturday morning at Crownland Cemetery in ...

Harriet Tubman, famed for her role in the Underground Railroad, is posthumously honored as a brigadier general by Maryland's ...

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank ...

More than 160 years after Harriet Tubman led Union troops on a raid on Combahee Ferry in South Carolina, freeing more than ...

Mass. Governor John Andrew answered that call by forming one of the first Black regiments in the Civil War — and a dozen of ...

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Some 80 men of Company E of the 5th US Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle from Camp Nelson, near Nicholasville, to Louisville to supply food for those ...

The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...

Buffalo Coat According to legend, this coat was made from the skin of a buffalo killed by Buffalo Bill, and presented by him ...

Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York in 1819, he left school at age 11 to help support his ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...