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TROUP COUNTY, Ga. — Restoration is underway at the Mulberry Street Cemetery in LaGrange. Many former slaves are buried there. Preservationists are hoping the public can help them find the names of ...

Winter is the perfect time for working on your family tree. Last week my husband and I got to mark off one of the items on our genealogy research bucket list. We had to make a quick trip to a town ...

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers. FILE - A member of the Army visits ...

Some veterans get parades and parties, taps and 21 guns, but tucked into this thicket of trees is an ode to war dead most don't even know is here. Weather has washed away some of the names, but even ...

The Aumack Family Burying Ground was first established in 1841, but its exact dimensions are a source of contention. Veterans of several American wars are buried there, including an 18-year-old who ...

Archaeologists have reportedly discovered two mass graves of slaughtered Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, unearthing a tragic massacre from the Civil War-era. Researchers used remote sensing ...

GAINES TWP. Michigan — The history of the Chippewa Indian burial ground will be the topic of the 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 meeting of the Swartz Creek Area Historical Society at the Swartz Creek City ...

HAMMOND | Historical preservation volunteers placed Christmas wreaths on the graves of Hammond Civil War veterans Tuesday, honoring the men for their war-time holiday sacrifices from 150 years ago.

VALPARAISO | New Year's Eve celebrations in our divided nation may have been subdued by Civil War in 1862, but revelry was nonexistent for Valparaiso's Col. Isaac Suman. On that day 150 years ago, ...