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 ...

In a video clip from the 1930s, old Confederate soldiers step up to a microphone and let loose with the howling yelp that was once known as the fearsome "Rebel yell." From "The Rebel's Yell," Courtesy ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

It’s never too late to show respect. That’s the philosophy of Wheatley Heights resident Ron Wells, who has organized what is believed to be the first Veterans Day ceremony to honor Civil War soldiers ...