In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...
He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...
The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...
The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...
By the late 1970s, the excavation of a bombproof room was another discovery at Fort Fisher.
For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...
The Texas Civil War Museum located on Jim Wright Freeway in White Settlement ... Richey designed the museum with the intent ...
The post-Civil War era was brought to life Saturday by actors portraying Grand Army of the Republic members. Union soldiers ...
Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...
President Joseph R. Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Union Army Soldiers Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...
The Associated Press reports that 28 Civil War veterans whose cremated remains were left in a Seattle funeral home for decades are being properly laid to rest at long last. Remains of nearly 30 Civil ...
The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine ... fought between the North’s Union Army and the Confederate States of America at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.