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Six local veterans of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the ...
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars spent Saturday helping to clean up, and give back across the Suncoast and nationwide.
Lawrence County’s last Union Civil War veteran is set to be honored on the country’s original Memorial Day date.
Thanks to the efforts of an Altoona man, an American Civil War veteran buried in the Dudley Protestant Cemetery will be ...
Visitors to “the Wall” in Washington, D.C., often leave mementos in honor of friends and family who died during the war. We ...
More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...
GLEN ARBOR — The Glen Arbor Cemetery will host its annual Memorial Day Ceremony this year, featuring tributes to Civil War ...
Memorial Day's history begins after the Civil War. It became a federal holiday in 1971 and is marked with cemetery visits, parades and ceremonies.
When Friends of Allegan's Oakwood Cemetery started their work, there were 302 known Civil War veterans in the cemetery. Now, ...
The Friends of Allegan's Oakwood Cemetery spent much of the last five years finding Civil War veterans who never had their ...
Whether you're a history buff, a genealogy enthusiast or a quiet wanderer, these cemeteries offer a peaceful journey through ...