A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing following ...

During the Civil War, 13,000 Iowa soldiers died of wounds or disease. That’s out of 76,000 who served during the war — more than 10 percent of Iowa’s population of 750,000.

Their names — veterans spanning the Civil War to the Vietnam War — echoed through the nave in a long overdue tribute. Until now, the remains of 20 veterans and five spouses were unclaimed.

Iowa in the Civil WarNPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with actor Hal Holbrook. He's narrating a one-time only performance by the Des Moines Choral Society about Iowa's involvement in the Civil War ...

Hugh was a native of Kentucky. Born in 1799 he was not a young man when he arrived with his own family in our state 57 years later. Like many of that era he was part of a large family. As I read ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A Civil War veteran from Iowa now has a headstone more than 110 years after his death. Frederick Wagner was born in France but spent most of his life in Iowa.

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

Donald George, 1924-1993, Korean War Harry Gardner, 1925-2023, World War II Richard Rick, 1928-1989, Korean War Harry Zaulk, 1948-2022, Vietnam War Navy — William Chase Jr., 1906-1973, World War II ...