How Black Union soldiers made Juneteenth possible

The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Descendants of Civil War veterans clean Union soldiers’ headstones at Lawrence’s Pioneer Cemetery

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...
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Union Soldier's 1861 Springfield Rifle Finds A Home At New England Civil War Museum

VERNON, CT — The New England Civil War Museum and Research Center has a new artifact. "Relatives of Chester Beckwith, Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery generously entrusted the museum as ...
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2 Union soldiers awarded Medal of Honor for Confederate train hijacking

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove ...