The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in ...

On July 22, after Ohio state Sen ... Sprunger helped me find several local accounts of Gilluly’s life and his Civil War service. Numerous accounts confirmed that Gilluly worked as a teacher ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Lincoln's chance came after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. He issued the preliminary Emancipation ...

Later in her life, Tubman proudly recalled ... together with other members of her family and household. After the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Tubman volunteered her services to the ...

The Fort Scott community got to explore the 1800s this weekend. Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was invited ...

Bill Pool enlisted in the Army in 1941 and, after ... war was over,” Bill recalls Like so many families across the Ozarks, Bill’s family was in the military. Bill’s father served in the ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... He moved out West after the war and died in Seattle in 1913. After his remains were ...

After the war he went to Texas to farm ... Accessed 4 Nov. 2024. Inc, Time. LIFE. Time Inc, 1959. 'Texan's Civil War Role in Doubt As Records Indicate Age Is 104'. The New York Times, 4 Sept.

He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost ... He worked as a sharecropper on the Moore plantation after the war, and married a woman named Emma; they ...

After browsing the tent for apples, gourds, pumpkins, honey and maple syrup, walk across to the Frankenmuth Fudge tent for even more sweets. With the growth of agritourism, the mill has expanded ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...