PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The ...
You thought the funeral was over? So did we. But history has a flair for the dramatic. In Part II, the 150-year-old ceremony ...
Witness history at the last Civil War funeral, honoring Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram with a solemn and authentic ceremony. This rare event offers a moving tribute to a soldier from America’s ...
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 ...