He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...
The celebrated Underground Railroad conductor received posthumous recognition for her service as a spy, scout, nurse and cook ...
After the Civil War, there was a burial commission that the Union Army set up and they would ... For President Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky is vital to winning the war. It's an election year and ...
Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...
More than 130 years after his death, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held their annual celebration of the ...