This is Part I of the remarkable story of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, believed to be the last soldier lost in ...

ALEXANDRIA — Two Civil War soldiers who were buried in Douglas County will be honored this Saturday, April 26 — William Nichols and Joseph Serle Alger. Quartermaster Nichols, a Civil War veteran and ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored Troops returned to Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where their families had toiled for generations. But this time ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. What is perhaps less well-known is ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's sweep of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the U.S ...

In 1913, a half century after the Civil War, the city of Huntington welcomed hundreds of grizzled veterans of that great ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar decades, veterans and their families began to establish veterans ...

With nothing planned at Locust Hill African Cemetery for the 160th anniversary of the end to the Civil War, not that such a ...

HURLOCK, Md. - A Union soldier from the Civil War was laid to rest once more in what his family says is his rightful home among fellow veterans. Nicholas Waters, who served in the United States ...

DETROIT – One of the earliest monuments constructed to honor Civil War veterans in the country is in Detroit. In 1865, the ...