Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and

A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.

Little has been written about the military role of African Americans in military campaigns of the United States despite the fact that men and women of color wer

That the Confederacy in its waning days frantically turned to the idea of arming slaves has long been known by all close students of the Civil War. Yet the more