93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation. The army was extremely ...
The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases ...
No Confederate states took the offer ... thenceforward, and forever free." The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...