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The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...
He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...
On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the ...
Talkov is head of program development and coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the Virginia Historical Society. ... Harper's Weekly on Jan. 24, 1863, ...
This story originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. It was mid-June in 1863, and Union soldiers were on the move, ...
Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John ...
Civil War Rages On As Telegraph Road leads toward the City of Alexandria, it passes Rose Hill, where Mosby’s Raiders went to the Rose Hill mansion on Sept. 28, 1863, and captured Col. Dulaney, a ...
Newspaper articles from the late 19th century and early 20th century reference people who died in the Civil War being buried there. Maps also show a cemetery existing in that spot in 1876, after ...
A U.S. Postal Service dedication ceremony set for Saturday to celebrate a new series of Civil War stamps will feature a Pembroke man, who claims his family has ties to a famous photo from the 1863 ...
Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is not a state holiday in Florida. Here's what to ...
Now she can share her family’s Civil War legacy with her children — Valerie, 6, ... 1863 — when a star was added for the newly created state of West Virginia.