After 155 years, the remains of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram - believed to be the last Confederate soldier killed in battle - were recovered in Munford, Alabama. Shot just eight days after Lee’s ...

The last Civil War veteran buried in Lyon County will be honored in a ceremony later this month at the Marshall Cemetery.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the ...