With him, the story was lost and the cemetery fell into neglect, despite the burial of two Vietnam veterans there as late as 1988. "I am not [a Civil War buff], but I am a curious person," Coker said.

For more than a century, 36 Civil War veterans buried at Cedar Bluff Cemetery in Rockford had no names on their graves only ...

A Civil War veteran born into slavery in Louisiana is among nine Union soldiers with new grave markers at Greenfield Cemetery ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

The city of Troy will unveil a new Ohio History Connection marker to honor some of Ohio’s black Civil War soldiers. An ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

The historic Ellsworth Cemetery in Westminster is now part of the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, recognizing the cemetery’s December 1876 founding by six Black Civil War veterans. On Jan ...

I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO. 15 CIVIL WAR VETERANS NOW HAVE PROPER GRAVE MARKERS IN DES MOINES, CLINTON GLENDALE CEMETERY. A RETIRED DES MOINES FIRE INVESTIGATOR LED THE EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION. HE ...