On Oct. 16, a local Civil War hero is getting the burial he never had, and city officials say they are hoping to find any ...

Hundreds of women secretly joined the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Some women were brazen enough to enlist as self-appointed officers, or double as female spies. (03:11 ...

A remembrance group, with help the VFW and American Legion, began a process of identifying and recording every gravesite of a Civil War veteran in Minnesota. Gary Carlberg, Commander of the Sons ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ... in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted to know, does ...

Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds ... Leonard, author of All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. “Her primary goal was to use her ...

This painting was used on the Fleetwood Civil ... Union, the end of slavery, the devastation of the Southern economy and the loss of over 600,000 American lives. Secretary of State William H. Seward, ...

Lincoln called for volunteers to join the armed forces to fight for the Union. It was June 1861 when the first group of volunteers left Manitowoc for the Civil War. Among them was 19-year-old ...

Fitchburg Historical Society Director Susan Navarre, Honoree Eunice Halbedel, and FHS president Amy Green at the annual ...

Ruth Epstein Republican-American FALLS VILLAGE – For years, a print of a dashing soldier that hung in the Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society Museum went unidentified. Louise Levy solved the ...

James S. Anderson wrote home from the front lines of the Civil War while in Brandy Station, Virginia, on April 4, 1864.

Orson Rodney Pease was over 100 years old when he died in 1934 and was the last Civil War soldier buried in Olmsted County. His grave is in Oakwood Cemetery in. Pease was honored on Saturday, Oct. 5, ...