The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows us ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

How to get involved The George A. Cribbs Camp 276 meets at noon on the first Saturday of each month at St. John's Harrold Reformed United Church of Christ, located at 103 St. John's Church Road in ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

Snopes found soldier details for "Jacob H. Millar" published by the National Park Service (NPS), which had originally filed it under "Jacob H./Miller." According to NPS records, Miller served as a ...

“In the Mahaiwe Cemetery … there’s a headstone for several individuals of the Ford family,” Steve McAlister emailed me in 2022. The senior architect with Clark Green + Beck Architecture Design in ...

It’s never too late to show respect. That’s the philosophy of Wheatley Heights resident Ron Wells, who has organized what is believed to be the first Veterans Day ceremony to honor Civil War soldiers ...

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were attacked by ...