American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

On April 12, 1861, the cannons rang out over Fort Sumter, S.C., as the United States of America was on the brink of war. Over the next five years, more than 620,000 soldiers – Union and ...

The Civil-War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and of the regiments assembled to preserve the Union, none suffered ... 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

A historical marker commemorating Black soldiers who fought for the Union in Arkansas during the Civil War was dedicated ...

Wiegel — the last Union Civil War veteran to be buried in Westmoreland ... Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before moving to Irwin. He lived in the borough ...

David D Porter Camp with Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will show the average kit ... served in the 9th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The unit, which included many Northwest ...

Fascinated with the Civil War since childhood ... Two years passed then and the war ended before a Union infantry officer, Lt. Frederick E. Grossman, led a detail of troops who searched two ...