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Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...
Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...
Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African-American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th ...
They then write letters from the perspective of African-American soldiers or their family members.
The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...