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

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had