EAST LONGMEADOW, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - As the United States moves closer to its 250th birthday next year, we continue our “We the People” series. We look back at the life of a Civil War soldier from ...

Dan Mason in 1864 Credit: Courtesy of Glover Historical Society On a 2007 outing to the Northeast Kingdom, Tyler Alexander stopped by the Westlook Cemetery in Glover to visit his grandfather’s grave.

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about Pvt. Lyons Wakeman. The service record in the National Archives is similar to countless other Civil War soldiers. Coloring: Fair complected with brown ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) - More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online through a new website created by the ...

A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...

WILLIAMSBURG — National officers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy were on hand for a solemn memorial service Friday morning at the graves of four unknown Civil War soldiers recently reburied ...