CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) - A trio of veterans with unmarked graves in Chippewa Falls will now be remembered for years to come. The search for their relatives began before Veterans Day, with the ...
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 ...
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Two Civil War veterans who lived in northern Michigan were honored Tuesday afternoon more than 100 years after their deaths. Private John Fish and Private ...
This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...
A few years back, a headstone was discovered at Red Cliff’s St. Francis Catholic Church. Lost under the brush, a veteran who was maintaining the tree-lined cemetery for members of the Red Cliff Band ...
I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO. 15 CIVIL WAR VETERANS NOW HAVE PROPER GRAVE MARKERS IN DES MOINES, CLINTON GLENDALE CEMETERY. A RETIRED DES MOINES FIRE INVESTIGATOR LED THE EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION. HE HAD THE ...
Beneath the grass at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, the graves of several soldiers have long sat unmarked. Over a period of months, local volunteer Wayne Haddock cross-referenced military service ...
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 Leach ...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...
Two veterans of the American Civil War have been honoured with new gravestones at their cemetery in Derby. Both Samuel Hough, who served with the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, and Henry McGuiness, of the ...
LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) - - Lawmakers in Lansing are working to honor a group of Native American veterans who served in the Civil War. Rep. John Roth, R-104th District, emphasized the ...
KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT TEN. FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES ...