Vicksburg, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...

A remembrance group, with help the VFW and American Legion, began a process of identifying and recording every gravesite of a Civil War veteran in Minnesota. Gary Carlberg, Commander of the Sons of ...

Leon Bibb explores the Civil War memorial in Public Square, where nearly 9,000 Cuyahoga County veterans are honored in stone.

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is a ...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - A Union soldier’s grave marker has been missing for decades, but now, thanks to a local organization, a new one has been created in his honor. The soldier from ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for the ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The cremains of U.S. Civil War Union soldier and Pawtucket native Byron R. Johnson were laid to rest on Wednesday, more than a century after his death. The ceremonial burial ...

This weekend, Americans set aside a day to honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in defense of their country: Memorial Day. The federal holiday only became official in 1968, but this ...

In Kevin Costner's case, it seems his love for the Civil War era runs in his family genes. The actor, producer and director, whose new film, “Horizon: An American Saga,” comes out June 28, is a ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg ...