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Life Scout Josh Bourbon of Troop 32 in West Dundee recently completed a community service project dedicated to preserving ...
A local group’s efforts to connect modern generations with the stories of their Civil War ancestors will be the focus Saturday of the Allen County Historical ...
The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Iowa is a long way from the major battlefields of the Civil War. But, more than 76,000 Iowans served in the Union army. That was a substantial portion of the state’s population ...
Aug. 24—Four days after the Confederate army bombed Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C., that launched the American Civil War on April 12, 1861, 18-year-old Sylvester Dana Rhodes of Plains Township ...
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 ...