Amid the intense fighting on Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg, a Black man took up arms and joined US soldiers in combat.

The Battle of Olustee took place in Florida in February 1864. Soldiers from the Keystone State played a crucial role throughout the fight.

Rich Condon recently stopped by the grave of an African American US Navy veteran in an abandoned cemetery near Pittsburgh.

More than 36,000 African American soldiers died during the Civil War, yet no national monument memorialized their sacrifice until 1998.