Col. GILTNER had the valuable services of Lieut.-Col. BOTTLES, of the Twenty-sixth Tennessee Regiment, who, being absent from his command at Chattanooga, volunteered his services for the occasion.

Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota ...

It was filmmaker Ken Burns who said, “The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast.

During Black History month it is only right to pay tribute to a man having the distinction of being the only black Rhea ...

This lecture includes several men from Southeast Minnesota who served with various regiments of United States Colored infantry, heavy artillery, light artillery and engineers. Their units patrolled ...