Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal of Honor by carrying the American flag through fire at Fort Wagner, ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles ... She located Wesley Ford’s Compiled Military Service Record (CMSR), written in the 1890s based on Union Army hospital reports of the injured and dead.

Spurgeon, whose great-great grandfather was in the 9th Kansas Cavalry, told the audience that he has special interest in Kansas Civil War history ... after meeting Union soldiers from Ohio ...

During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate troops used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. The executions were intended to inspire fear, as they were typically carried out in public.

Even with American Flags on their ... tags during the Civil War, as people wanted to avoid being buried in unmarked graves, as was common at the time. The soldiers began the practice themselves ...

On a memorable day in March, fourth-grade students at Hamilton Heights Elementary School (HHES) were transported back to 1864 as Kevin Stonerock, also known as Billy Yank, visited their classrooms to ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to life.