The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in ...

Schmale, of Charleston, researches flags that were carried on Illinois battlefields during the Civil War. There were regimental, calvary, infantry and battery flags. For more than 40 years ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

“It’s recognition as one of the most valuable Civil War artifacts sold in recent ... it’s the only unaccounted-for flag that was captured from a regiment in Pickett’s division, Fleischer ...

John Monsky is a collector of stories. They live within the stars and stripes of American flags — or, at the very least, what ...

DES MOINES (AP) With seven descendants of Iowa Civil War soldiers standing at attention, a restored flag carried into the war by an Iowa regiment was placed on display at the Statehouse.

As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed ... carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

“The Battle of Gettysburg was what most historians consider to be the turning point of the Civil War,” auction ... only unaccounted-for flag that was captured from a regiment in Pickett ...