Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and returned to Pittsfield shortly before his death ...

With a grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the Historical Society of Islip Hamlet said it plans to post a ...

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to raise $15,000 for the Reynolds Restoration Project.

Penn Township resident Bill Bray has made it his mission to ensure the Civil War veterans buried in Westmoreland County are ...

In other good things: — Lancaster Cemetery contains the family plot of Maj. Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, one of the Union's most important leaders during the Civil War. He died at the Battle of ...

Dempsey Daniel Butler arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1840s. An abolitionist and ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad, Butler opened a general store in the city. Through his business ...

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...