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American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded in 1862 when he was stabbed with a sword in a battle. He then spent ...
American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded in 1862 when he was stabbed with a sword in a battle. He then spent the last decade of his life penniless and living in a home for the ...
The Civil War was the bloodiest in US history: more Americans perished in five years than in all other conflicts combined. What was it like to fight? Soldiers faced new technology on the field ...
John Buckler, with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, led the charge to get the Union soldier, who died in 1931, this new headstone.
ROCHESTER — Orson Rodney Pease was over 100 years old when he died in 1934 and was the last Civil War soldier buried in Olmsted County. His grave is in Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester.
Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as “Decoration Day.” The Pioneer Cemetery holds 145 Civil War veterans’ graves. Observances are held across Lane County, with one of Oregon’s oldest ...
Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial after his great-great-great-granddaughter, Spectrum News NY1 anchor Cheryl Wills, tracked down his unmarked ...
Lt. William Cullen, an officer with the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment, died in the Battle of Antietam Creek during the Civil War on Sept. 17, 1862. Schuylkill County Common Pleas Judge William Burke, … ...
James S. Anderson wrote home from the front lines of the Civil War while in Brandy Station, Virginia, on April 4, 1864. See what this Manitowoc Civil War soldier wrote home about from the front ...
A Civil War soldier statue erected in 1924 on Greenwood Avenue and the actions of local soldiers inspired a Disney movie. News Sports Life & Events Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.
The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago.
The end of the war and Benson’s much-mourned death in 1865—an Ohio newspaper noted his passing as a “great loss”—did not put a damper on Liberian coffee exports to the U.S., where, after ...