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 ...

I learned the two military ... his ancestors' Civil War experience, the event exposes the difficulty of tracking down those loved ones who lived outside of official records.

In South Carolina, the remains of 21 Confederate soldiers recovered from forgotten graves beneath the stands of a military college’s football stadium were reburied in 2005. Civil War reenactors ...

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

The last of several events marking the 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is planned for Newtonia this Saturday. It will include tours of one of the oldest homes in Southwest ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after ... the National Archive along with family-tree records and eventually traced Sandy’s grave ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... of a burial service with military honors. "It's amazing that they ...