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Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in Williamsburg. Believed to have died in 1862, they were ...
During the Civil War, Charles Henry Quander, a slave at the Hayfield Plantation, provided food to a unit of Union soldiers from Pennsylvania assigned to Camp Vermont. According to the Quander ...
Ten months into the Civil War ... At this point in the war, Union supplies of coffee, including those from Liberia, were so assured that Northern soldiers could even afford to destroy the ...
Jim Ogden, former superintendent of the Chattanooga National Military Park and now the park historian, spoke to the local Chattanooga Civitan Club. His presentation was about the medical conditions of ...
More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women amid their efforts to crush an ...
Two reenactors unveil a veteran's headstone for Civil War solider Lt. John T. McMahan, who was killed during the Battle of ...
California was never a hotbed of Civil War ... the union, for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the American Red Cross, which provided food, clothes and medical care to Union soldiers.
Wiegel, as the last known Union veteran of the Civil War to be laid to rest in ... respect their memory and what they went through during the war,” Bray said. According to Wiegel’s obituary ...
It also served as a headquarters for Union soldiers during the Civil War and became a field hospital. Lee and Brittani Lusk bought the house for $1. But there was a twist: the new owner would have ...