1 of 7 | A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

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

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...

Kansas City’s future as a rail center was assured by the construction of the first bridge across the Missouri River on July 3 ...

From pirates to first flight, Coastal North Carolina can be called "the most historical place in the United States of America ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

It is a mission that members at the Legion Post 77 feel must be accomplished for three civil war veterans who may have been ...

Joe Crawford reflects on his great-grandfather's service in the Civil War, his sacrifice and the family's tradition of ...

Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier. Sandston’s birth and ...

"It felt like we were doing right for someone who otherwise would have been lost to history." For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in ...

Alexander Kazakov survived the Great War safely, but the Civil War that broke out after it in Russia literally broke him.