Real Pic of 116-Year-Old Civil War Veteran on His Deathbed?
In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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NEW YORK SOLDIERS LOVE THE OLD RIFLE.
There seems to be an irreconcilable difference of opinion between the New York Guardsmen and the War Department officials over the question of weapons to be used. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...
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A new veterans memorial follows a long history of remembering soldiers in Newberry Township
It would seed an idea for her to help organize the building of a new memorial at the Multi Emergency ... township residents who died during the Civil War and World War II, Miller added.