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, ...
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 ...
Today the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp 56 in Minnesota marked his grave in honor of his service.
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 ...
James S. Anderson wrote home from the front lines of the Civil War while in Brandy Station, Virginia, on April 4, 1864.
Civil War union soldier Daniel Walterhouse may have died 100 years ago, but his memory is alive and well, all thanks to two middle school girls in Albion, Kendall Peruzzini and Mary McCormick.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
ROCHESTER, Minn.-The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War have been researching and looking for union soldiers' graves across the country. In Minnesota the groups Camp 56 has been making good work ...