ALAMO TOWNSHIP -- The only Civil War Medal of Honor recipient buried in Kalamazoo County was honored was honored Saturday during a gravestone ... also known as Sailor's Creek, in Virginia.

A team of volunteers is sifting through documents, letters, diaries and photographs to assemble the definitive record of a Civil War ... men from Kalamazoo and surrounding areas. During its ...

More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War ... with military funerals as early as the Civil War. The sailors buried Friday would not have recognized ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The names of 107 Colored Troops veterans were read aloud during ... Sailors’ Monument on Public Square on Wednesday. The veterans will join the names of 9,000 other Civil War ...

Krowl, the Civil War specialist in the library’s ... managed to stay in touch during the war. Mary Ann had to trust her sentiments to her writers. And, as she probably couldn’t read, John ...

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument announced Thursday ... Stearns, a Berea native who served in the regiment during the Civil War. Harvey gave comfort to soldiers in the unit on the eve of ...

More than a dozen crewmen of the USS Kalamazoo spent the ... Before the sailors made it shipshape, the house approximated a casualty of war, just like so many others up and down the street.

The U.S. Navy sailor, a victim of the Dec ... New from West Michigan: Chase Bank robbed in downtown Kalamazoo Graham was stationed on the U.S.S. Oklahoma during the attack. He was responsible ...