It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...

The sword, sea chest, inscribed book, epaulets and other effects were shipped home to his widow, who was living in Syracuse at the time. Advertisement That's where the story of the Civil War naval ...

Barnes was harvesting grain with his brother when a man on horseback told them "the Civil War was ... the bloody six-week war. "We were all green boys. I hadn't been a soldier ten days; just ...

An account of him singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as he died was ... Six Muskingum County Civil War soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor. They were Alfred Ransbottom, Robert B.

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

told The Free Lance–Star there are no records showing that any Civil War soldiers’ remains were buried there in the Rowe backyard. But that doesn’t mean that none were, he said.

WASHINGTON — The White House announced President Joe Biden will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Civil War Soldiers Pvt. Philip Gephart Shadrach and Pvt. George Davenport Wilson for ...