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New Market Heights Battlefield outside of Richmond, Va.

Civil War | News

'Road to Freedom' App Telling Story of Black Virginians In Civil War Era Wins Silver In Inaugural Anthem Awards

(Washington, D.C.) – The Road to Freedom, a digital tour guide from the American Battlefield Trust showcasing scores of Virginia sites integral to the...

Rev War | Article

Black Spies of the American Revolution

Even 250 years after the events of the American Revolution, there is much that historians are still piecing together about the activities of spies...

Civil War | Article

"The Year of Jubilee Has Come" - The First South Carolina Infantry at Camp Saxton

As Prince Rivers stood on a freshly constructed platform in the shade of moss-covered live oak trees at Camp Saxton, he looked down upon the faces of...

Rev War | Biography

Colonel Tye

The origins of the Black Loyalist leader known as “Colonel Tye” are uncertain. Recent scholarship seems to point to a man named Titus, who was born...

American foot soldiers during the Yorktown campaign, 1781

Rev War | Article

10 Facts: Black Patriots in the American Revolution

Fact #1: Numbers in the Overall Population. At the onset of the War for Independence, approximately 500,000 African Americans lived in the colonies...

Civil War | Article

The Battle of Olustee

Throughout the Civil War, Florida supplied the Confederacy with beef to feed troops and with salt to preserve it. In 1864, the Union Army, which...

Photograph of slaves out front of Dr. William Gaines' house

Civil War | Article

African Americans at Antietam

To the citizens of Sharpsburg and Washington County, Maryland, slavery was not a foreign concept. In fact, these people witnessed firsthand the...

Drawing of Black Soldier in US Army Uniform

War of 1812 | Biography

Frederick Hall

Frederick Hall, also known as William Williams, was born in 1793 on Bellefields Plantation in Croom, a small town in Prince George’s County, Maryland...

Civil War | Map Tour