TUPELO – Attorney Brian Neely has long been a practitioner of the law. Since 2012, he’s served as assistant district attorney for the First Judicial District of Mississippi. It’s clear he has a love ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated two new cemetery markers at the Unknown & Known Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers Memorial. "They had to fight for the right, to fight for the ...

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...

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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 simple copper and cardboard ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont historians have their eyes on a historic painting up for auction this weekend, and the possible chance to bring it home to the Green Mountains. Vermont’s Statehouse is ...

In this episode of Depths of History, we explore a Civil War battle site that lasted only 90 minutes, uncovering both Union ...

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were attacked by ...

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Scott and Kimberly Chandler heard family stories growing up about their great-great-great grandfather, George Wilson, being a spy. “Hearing from my mom, it was talked about in hush ...