Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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Author: Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.
Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops
In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black
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The “Families’ Cause” in the Post-Civil War Era
“In spite of all that may be said of the new South and its willingness to set the issues of
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