The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

It still holds several notorious records, such as the highest number ... Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal ...

heralded the victory of the Union and Republican President Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves of a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle only had the name of ...

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

After the Civil War, there was a burial commission that the Union Army set up and they would ... For David Brown, discovering Truehart's enlistment records forced him to reconsider his family's ...

The Associated Press reports that 28 Civil War veterans whose cremated remains were left in a Seattle funeral home for decades are being properly laid to rest at long last. Remains of nearly 30 Civil ...

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...