Add to ORKGM.J. MorganPhil Cunningham provides a bio-sketch of former African American Union soldier John Sullivan, who farmed in southern Wabaunsee County in the 1880s. A member of the 101st Tennessee Colored Infantry, formed in western Tennessee to support the Union cause, Sullivan and fellow veterans endured the violence of Reconstruction. Sullivan, the son of a slave and a plantation owner, migrated to Kansas and became a successful homesteader and community member. A group of Tennessee black Union soldiers is buried in Eskridge Cemetery. The author includes interviews with descendents and an analysis and photos of Sullivan's headstone insignia
This article is a review of the life and military of John Francis Appleton who commanded on the firs...
Citation: Burenheide, B. (2017). Engaged At Cabin Creek: The First Kansas Colored Infantry’s First A...
Harrisburg was an integral city for the Union during the Civil War. Harrisburg’s canal, roads, and r...
M.J. MorganPhil Cunningham provides a bio-sketch of former African American Union soldier John Sulli...
On April 26, 1865, on a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrend...
Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it ...
During the secession crisis, intertwined geographic, economic, political, and ideological factors di...
Review of: Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colo...
A distinguished unit Story told from black soldiers\u27 perspective Civil War historians have rece...
Years before the United States military was officially desegregated in 1948, African Americans fough...
The historiography of African American participation in the Civil War is more frequently centered in...
Collection: John Eaton Letter, Mss. 4106, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Li...
Fighting for Survival and Freedom in the West Ian Michael Spurgeon\u27s Soldiers in the Army of Free...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
The Frederick C. Douglass Papers, held at the Joyner Library of East Carolina University are an impo...
This article is a review of the life and military of John Francis Appleton who commanded on the firs...
Citation: Burenheide, B. (2017). Engaged At Cabin Creek: The First Kansas Colored Infantry’s First A...
Harrisburg was an integral city for the Union during the Civil War. Harrisburg’s canal, roads, and r...
M.J. MorganPhil Cunningham provides a bio-sketch of former African American Union soldier John Sulli...
On April 26, 1865, on a farm just outside Durham, North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrend...
Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it ...
During the secession crisis, intertwined geographic, economic, political, and ideological factors di...
Review of: Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colo...
A distinguished unit Story told from black soldiers\u27 perspective Civil War historians have rece...
Years before the United States military was officially desegregated in 1948, African Americans fough...
The historiography of African American participation in the Civil War is more frequently centered in...
Collection: John Eaton Letter, Mss. 4106, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Li...
Fighting for Survival and Freedom in the West Ian Michael Spurgeon\u27s Soldiers in the Army of Free...
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Uni...
The Frederick C. Douglass Papers, held at the Joyner Library of East Carolina University are an impo...
This article is a review of the life and military of John Francis Appleton who commanded on the firs...
Citation: Burenheide, B. (2017). Engaged At Cabin Creek: The First Kansas Colored Infantry’s First A...
Harrisburg was an integral city for the Union during the Civil War. Harrisburg’s canal, roads, and r...