Roughly 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines were deployed to Los Angeles in early June over the objections of state ...

Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War arrived Saturday at Pioneer Cemetery on a muggy morning that had yet to hit the sweltering high temperatures of the later day and got to work. In ...

But the name will now honor three Civil War Union soldiers, with surnames Anderson, Pinn and Hill, rather than the original namesake — a Confederate general who was killed by Union troops in 1865.

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

It's been 160 years since June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce freedom to the last known group of enslaved people in the former Confederacy, more than two ...

The holiday commemorates the day when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, in 1865 with 2,000 Union troops to proclaim that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state ...

Further, the proclamation was unenforceable. Still, Union troops fighting in the war brought news of emancipation along with the military might to enforce it.

Juneteenth marks the date when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to officially declare slaves in the state as being free.