Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Sandy Wills, as a member of the United States Colored Troops during The Civil War. More than a century after his death, Wills fought to recover his remains from an unmarked grave on a former slave ...

There are wills in the Fulton County Probate Court dating back to before the Civil War that illustrate how slave owners passed their slaves and slaves’ children to relatives. "Here, people came ...

COVER STORY: Iraq War veteran Joe Dan Worley's purposeful life | Watch Video Twenty years ago, battlefield medic Joe Dan ...

POLITICO spoke with Kim Guadagno, the former lieutenant governor and secretary of state of New Jersey, who oversaw elections when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. As people across the country deal ...

Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at "approximately" 9:30 a.m. "Sandy Hook school. Caller is indicating she thinks someone is shooting in the building," a ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

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. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...