If you want a taste of what soldiers, heroes and pioneers looked like in almost any period of history — from well-traveled eras like the American Civil War ... wood, paper and plastic toys ...

As CBS2's Lisa Rozner reported, his law offices are like museums, with his collection of thousands of Civil War military figurines ... and then going to toy soldier shows," Connors said.

Stephen Campbell feels a kinship with this unknown Civil War soldier whose remains were reburied ... metal and some possibly wooden." Also found were "possible iron nail fragments, shoe or ...

A Civil War soldier’s 160-year-old letters ... The Islip man, who worked as a wheelwright repairing wooden wheels, joined the Union Army at 41, alongside sons Frederick Jr. and Lee.