Soldier killed with entire bomber crew in WWII identified, will be buried in June

The remains of a World War II soldier from Waterbury who was killed along with his entire bomber crew in 1944 have been identified and will be buried with full military honors in Middletown, a U.S. Read More

Civil War group honors the last Union veteran buried in each Minnesota county

In 2022, Johnson helped honor Pvt. Elias Fenstermacher, the final Union soldier buried in Crow Wing County. Fenstermacher served as a so-called powder monkey, distributing gun powder to cannon ... Read More

Forgotten no more: Marker will be dedicated for Civil War soldier from Coshocton County

Solomon Duncan, a Civil War soldier from Coshocton County, died of disease in Texas in 1865 and was buried in an unmarked grave. Through the efforts of the Sugarcreek American Legion post ... Ball ... Read More

Remains of WWII, Korean War troops identified; they will be buried with full military honors

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting agency announced last week that the remains of six service members from World War II and the Korean War had been accounted for. Read More

Shrine Near I-95 Honors Civil War Officer Shot By His Own Men

If you venture off I-95 near Fredericksburg, you can visit the site that was, until recently, called the Stonewall Jackson Shrine. This Virginia historic site, now called the Stonewall Jackson Death ... Read More

Family comforted to know remains of recently identified World War II soldier from Denver coming home

Decades after he was killed in World War 2, the body of U.S. Army Sgt. Harold A. Schafer will be laid to rest in the state where he grew up. It has been a long and difficult period of heartbreak for ... Read More

“No matter what, remember their family” - World War II soldier buried in Bakersfield

Private James McCartney was killed on March 1, 1945, in France, as World War II was starting to wind down. Many American ... McCartney was buried with full military honors Saturday, bringing ... Read More

How Jewish Soldiers Celebrated Passover in the Midst of the Civil War

In April 1862, approximately a year into the Civil War, Union soldiers with the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment camped out in the woods near what is now Fayetteville, West Virginia. Joseph A. Read More

Black Civil War veteran gets gravestone after 133 years of burial in Illinois cemetery

but he did find several people in the community who wanted to help bring recognition to Parker and other Black Civil War era soldiers buried in unmarked graves in Rockford. One of those people was ... Read More

Civil War reenactment in Berks shows daily life of soldiers

A reenactment in Berks County shows what life was like for a Civil War ... soldiers drill and carry out other functions of daily life. The day also included presentations and music from the era. Read More

Book Review: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army

In 1895 lawyer Simon Wolf, in response to antisemites’ claims that his fellow Jews did not do their fair share of Civil War service, published The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen ... or ... Read More

Rare Civil War-era revolver comes home to Berks

Yohn and is engraved on the butt and backstrap to read “Presented to D.S. Yohn 1861 by His Bro W.Y.” A rare Civil War-era revolver is ... in selling it to us.” Vroman said she was surprised ... Read More