IRWIN, Pa. — A gun salute and the sound of taps filled the air at the Union Cemetery in Irwin just after noon on Monday to honor John Ernest Weigel. “It’s crazy just to have so many people even like ...
John E. Wiegel was the last Union veteran from the Civil War to be laid to rest in Westmoreland County. While no one who was gathered at Irwin Union Cemetery on Memorial Day ever met Private John E.
LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -Upgrades to Lynn Haven’s Monument Park, which features a statue of a Union Soldier facing North, are now completed. Park updates include new landscaping, walking paths, ...
Friday, April 4, Brush resident Thomas Goss will present “Personal Account of George Read Lee” at the Brush Sack Lunch event. The program will hear from the personal journal of Lee, Goss’s ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Archaeologists were on site of a historical dig on Monday to locate the grave of a lost Civil War infantry. A company of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Calvary ...
A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...
More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The City of Charleston came under attack from Union soldiers on Aug. 22, 1863. Union forces were unsuccessful in taking Charleston by water, so they changed tactics and tried ...
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Black soldiers helped save the Union during the Civil War. They will be honored June 21.
PROVIDENCE − Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. On Saturday, June 21, they will be honored as the community marks Juneteenth. "I think it's ...
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