Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848–1865 (1967, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981), pp. 281–340, provides an overview of the service of Civil War ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Information about Samuel Truehart, a private in the U.S. Colored Cavalry, is on display in the barracks ... That’s roughly 25 ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ... Alfred Terry to explore the Black Hills with his 7th Cavalry. Custer spends the next few weeks at Fort Lincoln, Dakota ...

(WTAP) - Wirt County Pioneer Days held a Civil War Reenactment to teach locals about ... we come from because that’s very important to us. If you don’t learn your history, you are doomed ...