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 ...
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 ...
Beneath the grass at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, the graves of several soldiers have long sat unmarked. Over a period of months, local volunteer Wayne Haddock cross-referenced military service ...
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Iowa is a long way from the major battlefields of the Civil War. But, more than 76,000 Iowans served in the Union army. That was a substantial portion of the state’s population ...
On a Veterans Day ceremony held 160 years after they served their country, four Civil War soldiers were finally honored Tuesday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wyandanch. It was believed to be the first ...
Charles Milford Gordon learned from his father, a Scottish immigrant and minister, the importance of community and helping others. Gordon volunteered to serve with the Union Army during the Civil War ...
While most kids his age would likely spend a Saturday morning sleeping in, teenager Josh Bourbon had a better idea – honoring soldiers from his area’s Civil War past. Bourbon, a life scout with Troop ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Joey Balfour is the Assistant Director of Oral History at the National WWII Museum. The digital collections ...
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