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 ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

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 ...

memorial day events across the treasure valley today gave pause to remember and honor those who served our country and lost ...

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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 ...

Hundreds of millions of documents that shed light on everything from the hardships of Civil War widows to the mysteries of UFOs are waiting to be transcribed at the National Archives. Recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

F ifteen years after Sri Lanka's brutal civil war, women are clearing landmines to rebuild their communities. The war widows and single mothers fight for safety and reconciliation in a country ...