In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...
Thanks to the Missing In America Project, which finds, identifies and inters veterans, the ashes were recovered and most were ...
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans were found in a Seattle funeral home and laid to rest with full military honors after ...
Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...
Men, even great men, are not built from marble but from flesh and blood.
President Joseph R. Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Union Army Soldiers Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...
Most of the nation’s veterans are indeed men, in part because of barriers to women in the military that took far too long to fall. Without diminishing the contributions of male veterans, let us this ...
For decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities.
The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...