During the Civil War, the federal government asked Indiana Governor Oliver Morton to form an all Black regiment. It came to be known as the 28th Regiment and was activated in the spring of 1864.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 26. -- "Aunt Lucy" Nickols, a former member of the Twenty-third Indiana Volunteers, who fought all through the civil war, has been notified that the President has signed a special ...

After resting in an unmarked grave, Porter County’s first female physician has a tombstone and an Indiana Historical Bureau ...

In the confusion, chaos and carnage often resulting from close-quarters Civil War combat, hundreds of region men relied on their regimental flags to show them where to rally.

Here, among many weathered headstones, is the gravesite of Barton Mitchell, a common foot soldier from Indiana, who played a most uncommon role in one of the deadliest battles of the US Civil War.

Indiana’s lieutenant governor is facing backlash from some of the state’s religious and civil rights leaders after he called the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each Black enslaved ...