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

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

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 ...

Jonathan Lande is assistant professor of history at Purdue University and author of Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of ...

“After looking at maps of the Civil War, after looking at property records ... But it will be much more than ha history marker. For Jorgenson, it's a symbol of duty. “It is just a way for me to thank ...

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 ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

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

"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 ...