The city of Beaufort, South Carolina is planning to turn six acres of land into The South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent Park, which will honor the first black civil war soldiers who ...

Several states in the south ... the Civil War. The war was the costliest and deadliest ever fought on American soil, ending with Confederate surrender in 1865 and leaving over 620,00 soldiers ...

The holiday is observed on the last Monday of April and commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Attempts to ... holiday on Jan. 19. North and South Carolina celebrate on ...