The 33-year-old widow from Owatonna lost her husband, 2nd Lt. James Goodwin, to a Civil War gunshot wound two years earlier. But when Louisa became the nation's first woman appointed as state ...

As a young child, Mary Jo McDonald spent years in foster care and was on the list to be adopted by a new family. That all changed when her troubled mother found the strength to change. McDonald ...

Shenandoah University Civil War Institute director Jonathan Noyalas talked about how veterans and widows applied for pensions and the ways that… read more Shenandoah University Civil War ...

An estimated one-third of the enlisted soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War. For soldiers who died in the war, pension files were available for their widows. There are a total of 540 ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its ... his drawing to the “parents, widows, orphans and friends of those who ...

Following the Civil War, Memorial Day was first known as "Decoration Day" because widows of the fallen decorated graves with flowers, wreaths and flags. Nearly 700,000 soldiers died in the Civil ...

The statue was paid for and erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group of southern white women who were the wives, widows ... the pre–Civil War South and denied the horrors ...

Southern soldiers and their widows were dependent on their home ... The aging out of the Civil War generation had the effect of smoothing over lingering hard feelings and also dampening some ...

An academic historian had written about her, and she was sometimes included in lists of the moonlight-and-magnolia-style of female civil war spies, the kind historians don’t take too seriously.

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...