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 ...

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 ...

An author with local ties will discuss her new Civil War book in two presentations Thursday. Tonya Graham McQuade will share excerpts from "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

History has shown us that great civilizations that collapse usually do so from within. There is no country or terrorist ...