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The last Civil War veteran from Muskingum County, John Henry Parker, died at the ripe old age of 96 on Dec. 28, 1943. From a newspaper article written four years previously, we learn he lived with ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

In "Y Bridge City," according to local historian Norris F. Schneider, 3,850 men from Muskingum County served in the Army or Navy during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Of those, 596 died from ...

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.

Several other Black soldiers were awarded the medal during or soon after the Civil War for valor, while Carney’s came in 1900. But his actions at Fort Wagner are the earliest by a Black soldier ...

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, began after the American Civil War as a way to honor fallen soldiers. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...