The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Initially, the Union Army did not accept ... to run the bayonet through them.” As this soldier’s comments suggested, the Civil War offered new opportunities for both African American males ...

By drifting into Little Round Top, he gave the Union some of its most storied actions of the battle and the entire Civil War. The bayonet charge of the 20th Maine wiped up two rebel regiments and ...