Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

WASHINGTON — Weak and bleeding, a Union Army officer who stood fast commanding his artillery battery and was killed as thousands of Confederate forces advanced on his troops received an honor ...

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...

Hart played a unique role in the war as a white officer who led Black troops. He joined the Union Army just 11 days after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, starting the war.

Check out Jeff Shrader’s appraisal of a Civil War 6th Missouri union officer group in Springs Preserve, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines ...

Newly formed Union regiments in the Civil War were typically made up of about 1,000 troops – 97 0 enlistees and 30 officers. In each regiment on this list, more than 200 soldiers were killed or ...

A code used by Civil War lieutenant was deciphered, more than 150 years later. Jim Gandy, assistant librarian at the New York State Military Museum, holds the diary of Confederate officer James M ...