Black sailors were therefore accepted into the U.S. Navy from the ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th US Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired ... State Veterans Cemetery and a Navy veteran will be buried ...

and during the Civil War, as the ship's Confederate officers went ashore, he effectively hijacked the steamer and sailed it past Charleston gun batteries to deliver it to the Union Navy ...

The Mark Our Place Act authorizes the Department Veterans Affairs to furnish or replace a headstone, marker, or medallion for ...

index . $22.95. ISBN:1597970549. The sojourn of Russian naval squadrons in New York and San Francisco over the winter of 1863-1864 is both one of the most curious and one of the most controversial ...