The Civil War was entering its fifth year ... as a flag of truce galloped up to the men of the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry near Appomattox Court House and asked for directions to the headquarters ...

The home had been opened at the foot of Ash Street a year earlier for infirm and indigent Civil War veterans ... with the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve and 139th Pennsylvania Infantry and rose ...

Steven Brann was out Wednesday on the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, sweeping the ground with a metal detector ahead of crews that are rehabilitating a famous part of the Civil War park.

in Pennsylvania, was 21 years old when he volunteered for the mission. He was orphaned at a young age and left home in 1861 to enlist in an Ohio infantry regiment after the start of the Civil War.