This week, we share the story of a Civil War discharge certificate belonging to Pvt ... 1863 and mustered out on October 31, 1865. Adams was one of 10,940 African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army ...

His service record states he was from “White-hall (Hottenstein spelled it with a hyphen in his enlistment papers ... 3, 1865, Hottenstein was mustered out of the 107th. The Civil War was ...

"I have his discharge papers," Scott said proudly ... The Woodland monument is the fourth memorializing Civil War veterans. It's a large, old-style granite monument nearly 5 feet tall engraved ...

The Chester County Times is one of more than 30 newspapers spotlighted in “Blood and Ink: Front Pages From the Civil War” at the Newseum ... On April 15, 1865, the Evening Express in ...

Jenks Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865, Boon and several others ... visited with a picture she calls “Civil War Discharge,” that has been passed down in her ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...