On Feb. 21, 1861, on his way to his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln made a brief appearance in Bucks County, writes JD Mullane ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

Democratic members of the Steering and Policy Committee listened to testimony of the struggles of veterans during the first ...

I often wonder what meal was served to Abraham Lincoln and his entourage at the David Wills House in Gettysburg, on the evening of Nov. 18, 1863, the night before ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Francestown honored its veterans at the town’s annual Memorial Day ceremony Thursday at Francestown Elementary School.

Although Waterloo, New York, is officially recognized as the origin of Memorial Day, a city in Pennsylvania claims to be the ...

Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Some were famous men who died in battle. Others were unknown soldiers killed in historic battles. How much do you ...

More than a million men and women have died fighting for the creation and defense of the United States. Memorial Day is when ...

A tall, awkward, angular man stood up on a cold fall day in 1863 and spoke to a crowd assembled on the field of the most terrible battle of our nation’s most terrible war. There, in the unfinished ...

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