American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left Athens to begin his training at Camp Moore near Tangipahoa and finish training at Camp Benjamin near New ...
While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...
NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA —Pennsylvania's last Civil War veteran who died in 1949 will be remembered during a ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Newtown Cemetery where he is buried with his wife ...