We returned to a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods to revisit the grave of Benjamin Williams, a Confederate veteran born in 1854. After speaking with a local historian, we learned something ...

In a video clip from the 1930s, old Confederate soldiers step up to a microphone and let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell." From "The Rebel's Yell," Courtesy ...

For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the ...

Three Pennsylvania nonprofit groups will split $10-million from a Civil War veteran whose last heir died two years ago, reports the Associated Press. Adam Brinker served in the Army of the Potomac as ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - One man’s curiosity about his family tree left him stunned. He discovered relatives who had fought in the Civil War. In this week’s We the People, 19’s Katie Tercek share how ...

Members of Marietta Juvenile Drum Corps on the Washington County Courthouse steps. (Photo courtesy of the Marietta College Legacy Library, Slack Research Collection) Thousands of veterans of the Grand ...

At 85, Fred Minus has turned his passion for history into an educational mission, performing reenactments of Union soldiers and giving lectures about the Black men, young and old, who served in the ...

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