US Civil War veterans honoured with new headstones

Two veterans of the American Civil War have been honoured with new gravestones at their cemetery in Derby. Both Samuel Hough, ...

Civil War, WWI vets finally get gravestones at Sayville cemetery

On Saturday, the Moses A. Baldwin Camp #544 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War met at the cemetery to unveil and ...

Mentor man’s curiosity helps him discover two Civil War veterans are his relatives

One man’s curiosity about his family tree left him stunned. He discovered relatives who had fought in the Civil War. In this ...

The last surviving UK soldier in the American Civil War was from Derby

Now Samuel Lander Hough, along with another Derby veteran Henry McGuiness, has been honoured with US headstones in Nottingham ...
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Southeast Missouri Roots & Branches: Civil War ancestral research — part I

"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." This quote from a speech given by Oliver Wendall Holmes demonstrates the profound effects the Civil War had on our ancestors. Up to 80% of those who ...