For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...

Greened by time and the elements, a Civil War Army soldier, immortalized in bronze at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, has for decades anchored a 25-foot-high monument to the people buried there who ...

A few years back, a headstone was discovered at Red Cliff’s St. Francis Catholic Church. Lost under the brush, a veteran who was maintaining the tree-lined cemetery for members of the Red Cliff Band ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - After nearly 100 years in an unmarked grave, a Rockford veteran is honored for his role in America’s bloodiest battle. On Thursday, Samuel H. Bogenrief, a farrier with the 17th ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John Leach ...

At 85, Fred Minus has turned his passion for history into an educational mission, performing reenactments of Union soldiers and giving lectures about the Black men, young and old, who served in the ...

Dozens of people who hadn't even heard of Civil War veteran John Weigel until today honoring his memory and his family. The first of its kind in Westmoreland County, *** Memorial Day ceremony for the ...

Two veterans of the American Civil War have been honoured with new gravestones at their cemetery in Derby. Both Samuel Hough, who served with the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, and Henry McGuiness, of the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- The Final Salute for a Union Civil War veteran who died in Des Moines nearly 100 years ago got even better after he was discovered by two of his descendants at the Iowa ...

The Kent Historical Society's next Sunday Series program will be held May 15 at 2 p.m. at town hall on Kent Green. The program will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Ernie Barker ...