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 ...
Irish Central9d
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 ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
The Shocking Moment When a Group of Confederate Spies Plotted—and Failed—to Burn Down New York City
Southern operatives tried to light New York businesses on fire and bring the Northern city to its knees on this date in 1864 ...
Israeli American soldier killed during Oct. 7 Hamas attack remembered at New York memorial service
A New York Jewish community is mourning the death of a young Israeli American soldier who Israeli authorities had believed ...
Popular Science28d
Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are ... and additional urns will be reunited with family in Rhode Island, New York, and Maine. [Related: Maryland historical society ...
Robert Dixon, last surviving Buffalo Soldier, dies at 103
A member of the Ninth Cavalry, one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, he trained West Point cadets in military horsemanship during World War II.
Israeli American soldier killed in Oct. 7 Hamas attack remembered at New York memorial service
New York parents learn their son, a young Israeli American soldier who was believed to be taken hostage by Hamas 14 months ...
PBS4d
News Wrap: Syrian rebels breach Aleppo in biggest advance in years
In our news wrap Friday, more than decade-old civil war in Syria appears to be re-igniting, as rebel fighters breached Aleppo ...
The New York Times14d
Grieving Parents Ask: Should They Freeze Their Dead Son’s Sperm?
In Israel, the military is now offering to preserve the sperm of soldiers killed in war. Parents and widows ... Ofir Berman for The New York Times Supported by By Emma Goldberg Avi Harush heard ...
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Walt Whitman supported, comforted soldiers
Russia's war ... Civil War. Compelled to help Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York ...
USA Today2d
What's happening in Syria? What to know about the complex, long-simmering civil war
A surprise offensive by rebel forces opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has led to a new round of fighting ... recently largely static – civil war. After a lightning advance ...