DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- The Final Salute for a Union Civil War veteran who died in Des Moines nearly 100 years ago got even better after he was discovered by two of his descendants at the Iowa ...

Helen Viola Jackson, the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran, has died at the age of 101. Her death was confirmed by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War on Monday. Jackson died ...

An appeal has been launched to find the final resting place of a Hull man believed to be the last known American Civil War veteran in the region. The Sons of Union Veterans of the American Civil War ...

For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...

Two veterans of the American Civil War have been honoured with new gravestones at their cemetery in Derby. Both Samuel Hough, who served with the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, and Henry McGuiness, of the ...

Beneath the grass at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, the graves of several soldiers have long sat unmarked. Over a period of months, local volunteer Wayne Haddock cross-referenced military service ...

A Blount County resident is raising money to reinstall the tombstone of a near-forgotten Civil War veteran after he found the original marker being auctioned off in Roane County. “I belong to the Sons ...

Greened by time and the elements, a Civil War Army soldier, immortalized in bronze at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, has for decades anchored a 25-foot-high monument to the people buried there who ...