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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

"It's amazing that they were still there and we found them," said Tom Keating, coordinator for the Missing In America Project. "These people have been waiting a long time for a burial." ...

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 ...