Two privates who served in the Union Army and survived the Civil War were honored in a ceremony ... commemorating the event with a ceremony to honor the soldiers ahead of this year’s Memorial ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

In the Civil War, in Dover and Wrightsville and other places that Confederates invaded, they operated holding pens for captured Union prisoners. Confederate soldiers wounded in fighting at ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Their purpose was to pay respect at gravesites of Civil War soldiers at the Ashley Cemetery ... G.A.R. and societies,” reported the Wilkes-Barre Record on May 31, 1882. The drum corps formed ...

Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay.

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more ... TV show "M*A*S*H," and modern medical record-keeping were among the accomplishments ...

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, began after the American Civil War as a way to honor fallen soldiers ... This is the third straight year of record-breaking travel for this holiday ...

Tanks and thousands of troops are on the streets of Washington, D.C., for the Army's 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump's birthday.

The Army is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a parade on Saturday, which happens to be President Donald Trump’s 79th ...

During that address, Trump told the graduating cadets they would not have to serve in “endless wars” being waged in “faraway lands” and urged them to remember the Civil War soldiers who ...