The Sultana: Little-known, Little-told Civil War Tragedy

The Sultana Faded blue uniforms hung loosely on their gaunt bodies. Weakened by months of starvation, disease and brutality in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia and Cahaba, Alabama, many of the recently released soldiers that crowded the wharf at Vicksburg, Mississippi could hardly […]

South Carolina lawmakers push for confederate war symbols 

A pair of state lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for war statues and memorials, especially ones that honor Black Confederate soldiers in the state, despite the fact historians have said there are none to be found. The two Black lawmakers who are spearheading the […]