In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten.

When Pulaski’s Edwin Ayers joined the Union Army during the Civil War, an officer made the 16-year-old a drummer boy because ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the ...

As soon as armed conflict ended, this massive assemblage of Confederate and Union reports was ... Unlike later wars when soldier letters were heavily censored, Civil War correspondence is ...

He is now an avid collector and local Civil War historian ... trophies of war, Hickox said. Sometimes the Confederate soldiers “wore them upside down,” as an anti-Union statement, he said ...

he said. “They all had standard, Union buttons, plus shoulder buttons most Civil War uniforms didn’t have. One soldier wore a canvas-topped, baseball shoe, so we thought it was a city unit.

Bray said Memorial Day is an appropriate time to honor Wiegel as part of a Sons of Union Veterans campaign to recognize the gravesites of the last Civil War soldier buried in each county across ...

Albion, N.Y. (WHAM) — A Civil War soldier who died in Orleans County ... project to uncover the story of Daniel Walterhouse, a Union soldier from the Fourth Regiment of the Michigan Infantry.