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In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who ...
When Pulaski’s Edwin Ayers joined the Union Army during the Civil War, an officer made the 16-year-old a drummer boy because ...
The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...
The Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office recently announced a donation of two new cemetery markers to honor Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers.
The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.
More than a half century after Americans began decorating the graves of those who died during the Civil War, the annual ...
Bromley, who had lived in Monroe County, was a Black soldier ... Cemetery Civil War tour booklet, compliments of Nash-Hodges Camp #43, Department of Michigan, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil ...
A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of those graves could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the ...
The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the ...
Several homes along Sophia were occupied by the Union Army during the brutal ... Star there are no records showing that any Civil War soldiers’ remains were buried there in the Rowe backyard.
The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when considered in the context of the Civil War and its aftermath. It’s a bold argument ...
Some time before the Civil War, Brown was relocated to Alabama. As the war raged, Brown was found by Union Soldiers, eventually fighting for the North in Tennessee. “He entered into the Civil ...