Honoring a Civil War veteran who was lost to history
Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...
How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...
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'Enemy Number 1' Admiral Kolchak and the Russian Civil War
In western Europe, the four-year slaughter of World War One was drawing to an end.But across the former Russian Empire, a new ...
The remains of 28 Civil War soldiers were found in a funeral home's storage. They've now been laid to rest.
The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...
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Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral home's storage are laid to rest
For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...
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Local Civil War veterans group sends Missouri flag overseas
Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...
Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...
Military Times on MSN8d
Remains of Civil War veterans found in funeral home’s storage
For decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities.
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My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War for $300 | Joe Crawford
Joe Crawford reflects on his great-grandfather's service in the Civil War, his sacrifice and the family's tradition of ...
Presidential election reveals how divided we are as a nation. But ‘Civil War II’? Not exactly
but in recent years we have gone Category Five with forecasts of a Civil War II. Since history is guilty of repeating itself, ...
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John G. Barnard, a little-known Civil War brigadier general from Sheffield, gets his slice of highway and fame
Also a Civil War buff, he decided to study Barnard ... crediting the Sheffield Historical Society for “discovering not only ...
Legion Post 77 in Chippewa Falls search for families of Civil War veterans with unmarked graves
It is a mission that members at the Legion Post 77 feel must be accomplished for three civil war veterans who may have been ...