The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...
On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...
The discovery of the remains of two soldiers from the Manassas National Battlefield ... Bruce Frail and his son Ben – both ...
For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...
In 2023, a statue to commemorate the United States Troops was erected in Pulaski, TN — an effort led by Vivian Sims.
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...
President Joseph R. Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Union Army Soldiers Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...
Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...
The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine ... Earlier this year, two Union soldiers were posthumously honored by President Biden with the Medal of Honor for their courage ...
The discovery of the remains of two soldiers from the Manassas National ... son Ben – both long active in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War – were on hand for service.