Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Wills found her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, in the military archive for being honorably discharged in 1866. He was a Civil War veteran who married Emma Moore West and had nine ...

location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

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It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...

He died in 1889. He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...