During the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army expanded its reach to the west. The Union’s goal — finding resources to finance ...

The post-Civil War era was brought to life Saturday by actors portraying Grand Army of the Republic members. Union soldiers ...

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

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 ...

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

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

In a historic ceremony held in Columbia, South Carolina, seven civil rights activists who participated in sit-in protests during the 1960s have finally had their arrest records expunged. The event ...

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 ...

I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense we had a civil war.” What in the world was ... As Lincoln explained in his landmark 1860 Cooper Union address, which set him on the path to the ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...