Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

It was a long war.” The Decoration Day program will be held in the shadow of Iowa’s first Civil War monument. It was built to honor 15 soldiers from the area who died in the war.

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

After that, Iowa continued to be a leading state in the country in civil rights. In 1868, an Iowa Supreme Court ruling integrated Iowa’s schools 96 years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v.

Iowa civil rights lawyer Roxanne Conlin remembers the passage of the Iowa Civil Rights Act in 1965. Six years later, she ended up litigating the first court case, Iron Workers Local No. 67 v.

After that, Iowa continued to be a leading state in the country in civil rights. In 1868, an Iowa Supreme Court ruling integrated Iowa's schools 96 years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v.

I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO. 15 CIVIL WAR VETERANS NOW HAVE PROPER GRAVE MARKERS IN DES MOINES, CLINTON GLENDALE CEMETERY. A RETIRED DES MOINES FIRE INVESTIGATOR LED THE EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION. HE ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

It is Iowa’s only Civil War battle site, of sorts. From Croton, we zig-zagged on small roads to Keokuk seeking the grave of Joseph Patterson. Although not our relative, his story is amazing.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked. Trump has just crushed Ireland’s European ...

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