In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

Now, 114 years after his death, two middle-schoolers have gotten the Union Army soldier a gravestone. “It was sad to think of ...

When the Civil War erupted in 1861, no one on Long Island had a more personal stake in the outcome than its Black residents. Although free, they were keenly aware of the impact of slavery.

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

Memorial Day traces its origins to over 160 years ago, when a grieving country sought to honor the many brave men lost in the Civil War, including Sgt. Joseph Allen Frith.

Two U.S. soldiers, executed 162 years ago for their role in a daring Civil War mission to hijack a locomotive and sabotage a rail line vital to the Confederacy, were recognized Wednesday with the ...

Several families from around western Massachusetts have an historic and personal connection to the Civil War and Juneteenth, ...

A Civil War soldier statue erected in 1924 on Greenwood Avenue and the actions of local soldiers inspired a Disney movie. News Sports Life & Events Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

They are rare living links to history, these children of Civil War soldiers. Yes, children. As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war, it is amazing to consider that offspring of those ...

Civil War Soldiers Buried at Home ... War soldiers up to Massachusetts on June 9 for burial the next day in the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, on Cape Cod.

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first reported by the Associated Press, their discovery concludes a decades-long ...

ROCHESTER — Orson Rodney Pease was over 100 years old when he died in 1934 and was the last Civil War soldier buried in Olmsted County. His grave is in Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester.