In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

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

It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was ...

Like Jimmy Jr., many young white men in the Civil War South equated military service with adult masculinity. Indeed, the Confederate draft literally defined manhood by limiting enlistment to males ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Civil War reenactors participate in funeral services ... that they were all Union soldiers deserving of a burial service with military honors. “It's amazing that they were still there and ...

Caroline Wood Newhall is an assistant professor of History whose work focuses on 19th-century U.S. history. Her first book is ...

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, ...

“I’m proud of his service, and I’m proud that he survived slavery.” Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... deserving of a burial service with military honors.