PHILLIPS- The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad will host its annual raid on the Sandy Civil War re-enactment on Saturday, July 26th. The re-enactment will be held at 128 Bridge St ...

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Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

Ms. Wills is the author of a series of books about her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills, who was an enslaved Tennessee man who fought for his freedom during the American Civil War.

Long Island History Civil War veteran receives long overdue honor It took 135 years for Army Private Sandy Wills to get the final salute he deserved after being buried in an unmarked grave.

Black History takes on a whole new meaning for me this month. I became the first in my family in more than a century to discover that my great-great-great grandfather Sandy Wills, fled his slave ...

Veteran Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors this past August – 135 years after his death. The once enslaved man who had run away to fight in the Civil War in the U.S. Colored Troops ...

As we mark Veterans Day, Cheryl Wills has an update on her 15-year journey to find her Civil War veteran great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills.

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial after his great-great-great-granddaughter, Spectrum News NY1 anchor Cheryl Wills, tracked down his unmarked ...