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 ...

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.

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.

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

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

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 ...