John E. Wiegel was the last Union veteran from the Civil War to be laid to rest in Westmoreland County. While no one who was gathered at Irwin Union Cemetery on Memorial Day ever met Private John E.

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 ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT TEN. FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES ...

On a Veterans Day ceremony held 160 years after they served their country, four Civil War soldiers were finally honored Tuesday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wyandanch. It was believed to be the first ...

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 ...

A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...

This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...

Members of Marietta Juvenile Drum Corps on the Washington County Courthouse steps. (Photo courtesy of the Marietta College Legacy Library, Slack Research Collection) Thousands of veterans of the Grand ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Two Civil War veterans who lived in northern Michigan were honored Tuesday afternoon more than 100 years after their deaths. Private John Fish and Private ...

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 ...