Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Wills found her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, in the military archive for being honorably discharged in 1866. He was a Civil War veteran who married Emma Moore West and had nine ...

Sandy Wills emancipated himself from slavery during the height of the Civil War and enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in 1863. Five years ago, Cheryl Wills learned her great-great-great ...

This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century ...