Life Scout Josh Bourbon led a group of volunteers to clean and restore the gravesites of Civil War veterans in West Dundee, ...

Tom Mauer knew his great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, but he didn't know much more, including where he was buried. With some sleuthing and hard work, the retired postal worker from ...

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 more than 1,000 former ...

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 ...

SHERIDAN, Mont. — Time and weather eventually take their toll on most everything. Generations pass. Names of people long gone are lost or forgotten. But it doesn't have to be that way. The American ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita holds all kinds of history, and one organization is helping to preserve the history there. For eight years, members of the Sons of Union Veterans ...

Iowa's Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) aims to honor the people who were laid to rest in their cemetery. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) was founded in 1883, and ...

Three Civil War veterans buried in Painesville’s Evergreen Cemetery will no longer lie unnoticed after a local boys group worked to raise funds for headstones. The Men of Honor Junior Cadets ...

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 ...