The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

Created after the Civil War, the Army’s all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” by Native Americans who encountered them in the nation’s Western ...

The previously unclaimed remains of a Civil War spouse from Bowdoin have been laid to rest beside her husband. Eliza Arabella Campbell's cremains were found at a Seattle cemetery storage by Missing in ...

16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.) ...

It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...

During the American Civil War, while armies clashed on the battlefield, another conflict unfolded between soldiers and ...

Many soldiers were wounded in combat, often at major battles such as Stones River and Gettysburg, but survived until long after the Civil War’s conclusion. An estimated 620,000 soldiers died ...

The Civil War was the deadliest war in America’s history. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives, and the conflict had drastic impacts on the social and political fabric of the country. When the ...

These combat-tested Black soldiers have symbolized selfless patriotism among Black Civil War troopers. But most Black Civil War soldiers never saw combat. Instead, they worked on U.S ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors participate in ceremonies during funeral ...

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple ...