While America’s longest war – the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan – ended when American forces hastily fled the country in August 2021, memories from two decades of bloody battles are still lodged ...

For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...

This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...

Bishop Joseph Williams places a wreath on a grave at Holy Cross Cemetery during Wreaths Across America, which was held ...

On a Veterans Day ceremony held 160 years after they served their country, four Civil War soldiers were finally honored Tuesday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wyandanch. It was believed to be the first ...

THAT KCCI HAS BEEN FOLLOWING NOW FOR TWO YEARS. I JUST THOUGHT, THERE’S THERE’S NO WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT SOMEONE DIED ALMOST 100 YEARS AGO, WAS STILL SITTING ON THE SHELF AND FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR.

It’s never too late to show respect. That’s the philosophy of Wheatley Heights resident Ron Wells, who has organized what is believed to be the first Veterans Day ceremony to honor Civil War soldiers ...

The Sons of Union Veterans, Civil War is sponsoring a veteran banner program in Richland County. Proceeds from the $175 banners will help preserve the historic Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

World War II was nearing its end in March 1945 when Russell Sattazahn found himself taking cover from enemy fire with other GIs in the basement of a German house. At first they felt protected, but the ...