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BRATTLEBORO — After eye-opening research from three local students and their teacher, the town will purchase and install a new plaque to recognize the number of Vermonters who served during the Civil ...
BRATTLEBORO — When this former hub town for Vermont’s Union troops first debated how to honor its Civil War soldiers a century and a half ago, some locals proposed a plaque listing names ...
When the Civil War erupted in 1861, no one on Long Island had a more personal stake in the outcome than its Black residents. Although free, they were keenly aware of the impact of slavery.
During the Civil War, Myers was one of 1,000 Black men from across the U.S. to serve in the 54th, said Elyssa Tardif, director of education at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
For more than a century, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument has stood in the center of Monument Circle. Learn more about this ...
Alert SOLEMN SALUTE: Group IDs unmarked Civil War soldiers By Aly Kleidon akleidon@record-eagle.com May 25, 2025 1 of 7 ...
A rare Civil War identification tag from a soldier who was wounded at the Battle of Monocacy in 1864 has been donated to the National Park Service. Samuel M. Weigel, a private with Company G of ...
Description During the years 1861-1865, the country was embroiled in a Civil war. It was the North vs. the South in which Union forces battled Confederate forces to determine the future of the ...
Civil War historian Harrison Hunt, a former supervisor with the Nassau County museum system who for more than three decades has studied and written about the war as it relates to Long Island ...
Over the weekend, Riley Bryant found some Civil War-era bullets and a U.S. plate typically found on the cartridge bags of Civil War soldiers under the bridges at the south end of downtown Memphis.
Two Civil War soldiers buried in Emmet County will be honored in ceremonies on Sept. 30 where one will receive a new headstone and the other a flag holder.