I found the article regarding a monument for recognition of the black soldiers of the Connecticut 29th regiment interesting and pertinent to my Civil War writings. My great grandfather Myron W.

Atwood Young was killed during the Battle of Fort Wagner in South Carolina, his great-great-grandsons said Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As the first black regiment to be organized in a Northern state, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment ...

Sgt. William H. Carney was the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, on this day in history, May 23, 1900, for his efforts at protecting ...