Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered flags in Iowa to half-staff tomorrow (Saturday) to honor a fallen World War II U.S. Army air gunner during his funeral on Saturday. Nineteen-year-old Corporal Melvin L. H ...

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.

Some were never picked up from the funeral home; others were recently found in a storage unit; and one was finally identified as a soldier from the Civil War. In the lead-up to the 2020 election ...

DES MOINES (AP) With seven descendants of Iowa Civil War soldiers standing at attention, a restored flag carried into the war by an Iowa regiment was placed on display at the Statehouse. Encased ...

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

Performer and historian O.J. Fargo will present “Just Before the Battle, Mother — A Visit from a Civil War Soldier” at the Dakins Community Center, 105 E. Main St. in Zearing. The program will begin ...

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and ...

The Zearing Heritage Room is welcoming a Civil War reenactor for a free program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Performer and historian O.J. Fargo will present “Just Before the Battle, Mother — A Visit ...

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.

A Linn County man spent the last three weeks recreating an Iowa Civil War battle flag to bring to Prairie Grove, Arkansas, to re-create the 1862 battle next week.

Civil War soldier and personal Bodyguard to General Sherman, ... Kapsa lived in the Iowa City community for several years after the way and passed away at his home at 1117 N. Dodge Street in 1919.