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

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

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

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

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, ...

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

Joe Crawford reflects on his great-grandfather's service in the Civil War, his sacrifice and the family's tradition of ...

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 ...

U.S. military veterans, all of whom were Black, were buried in unmarked graves at St. Louis Cemetery on Barret Avenue.

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.