A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

An Iron Brigade soldier’s legacy lives on in his Civil War diary, preserved and shared by his descendants. Charles H. Walker, who settled in Rio after the war, recorded his nearly four years of ...

Podcaster Show PlayerOn Saturday, the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is presenting “Return to Camp Randall” to commemorate not just the end of the Civil War but how it ended in the camp that ...

Troy Walker, a La Crosse man who grew up in Rio and presented his great-great-great grandfather’s story of his battles in the 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment of the Iron Brigade at the American ...

Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865) -- History, Wisconsin -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental ...

But they are actually Union soldiers from the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment who volunteered to escort the young enslaved woman, who was about to be sold as a prostitute, up 100 miles to ...

1st Virginia infantry -- captured by 82d New-York volunteers. 3d Virginia infantry -- no statement of capture. 7th Virginia infantry -- captured by 82d New-York volunteers.

Ohio regiment soldiers receive Medal of Honor for Civil War locomotive chase President Joe Biden will fix the 161-year-old oversight by honoring Private Philip G. Shadrach and Private George D ...

The 29th Colored Infantry was formed in Quincy, Illinois, in April 1964 and was Illinois’ only Black regiment during the Civil War, wrote Olar. Eight of the Tazewell County residents were from ...

Ben Varner, a Berks County historian, gives a presentation Thursday at the Orwigsburg Historical Society on the history of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.

“The Civil War was filled with heroes—the known and the unknown,” states Jared Maddox with the C. CO. 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment Civil War, Sixth Infantry Reenactors Association.