On This Day: Sherman begins March to the Sea during Civil War
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.
Honoring a Civil War veteran who was lost to history
Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...
How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day
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, ...
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Sandston's inception owed to a World War I munitions factory
Many of the areas surrounding Richmond owe their beginnings to periods during the Civil War and earlier. Sandston’s birth and ...
Photographs from 1860s provide rare glimpse of bridge that propelled Kansas City’s rise
Nearly 40,000 Kansas Citians packed the banks of the Missouri River to celebrate the completion of the first railroad bridge ...
Legion Post 77 in Chippewa Falls search for families of Civil War veterans with unmarked graves
It is a mission that members at the Legion Post 77 feel must be accomplished for three civil war veterans who may have been ...
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Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral home's storage are laid to rest
"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 ...
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John G. Barnard, a little-known Civil War brigadier general from Sheffield, gets his slice of highway and fame
“Can you imagine a 14-year-old today going off to West Point? Or a highly decorated Civil War veteran — and he was deaf.” ...
What Democrats Can Learn from America’s First Black Voters
After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
Virtually forgotten, the story of a historic CT bell may once again ring out for all
The artifact also could help illuminate the broader economic ties with the U.S. military as well as lesser known stories ...
The 2024 election is over — good riddance. Let’s move beyond politics.
The 2024 election has come to a close and it is time to move on from the all-consuming obsession of politics and rediscover ...
Dig looks for evidence of a British encampment in front yard of a founding father's home
Preparing for the SC250, an archeological dig looks for evidence of a British encampment near the childhood home of South ...