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Black Civil War soldier finally gets proper military burial — after star NYC journo family spends 15 years tracking down unmarked grave
It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
The Shocking Moment When a Group of Confederate Spies Plotted—and Failed—to Burn Down New York City
Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was tried in a New York City courtroom for espionage—and for ...
Irish Central8d
Irish American Civil War soldier’s last letter home, found on his dead body
Hubert McNamara, leaving behind a wife and three children in Ireland, died in the bloody slaughter of Cold Harbor. The ...
Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show
For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...
Census data analysis shows the South had a much higher mortality rate than the North in the US Civil War
A small team of social scientists at New York University-Abu Dhabi has conducted what they describe as a more accurate ...
A Civil War soldier didn’t have a tombstone. Two teens just got him one.
American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded ... penniless and living in a home for the destitute in western New ...