The ceremony was to remember Colonel Henry Zinn, who commanded the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Zinn was killed in the battle at Fredericksburg ...

The Civil War unit that Good commanded was the 47th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. The late Lewis Schmidt of Allentown wrote a detailed account of the regiment in the war.

Geary, who would later become governor of Pennsylvania, as Company E of the 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Chapman was elected Captain of the Company.The 28th Regiment served in the ...

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania — There are miles of roadway that ... a schoolteacher from Grant County who carried the U.S. flag for Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Wright led ...

His regiment paid a terrible price – 211 of 300 men fell ... His aggressive leadership had been crucial to the Union breakthrough at Bloody Lane. The 132nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry arrived at ...

Editor‘s Note: In recognition of Memorial Day, we’re publishing the following courtesy of Stories Behind the Stars, a nonprofit with a mission of honoring all 421,000 fallen Americans from ...

A private sendoff ceremony will be held for soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment and Golf Company, 132nd Brigade Support Battalion Saturday in Oshkosh. The soldiers are ...

Also on this date: In 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up of free Black men, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War. In 1892, the Sierra Club was founded ...

Right below the ghostly mural sits Old Abe, the mascot of the 8th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Old Abe "became famous for spreading his wings and shrieking at ...

On Veteran’s Day, 156 years after 21-year old Henry S. Cornell from the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was killed by a Virginia militiaman, Arlingtonians gathered to unveil a plaque ...