Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 105 years after his death, a Minnesota Civil War veteran finally received military honors at his burial site Saturday in St. Paul.

Francis Edwin Brownell, whom everyone called Frank, saw the shotgun before most men in the stairwell and understood what had just happened. The Union soldiers had entered the Marshall House in ...

President Obama stands with Helen Loring Ensign as he awards the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing for conspicuous gallantry, on Nov. 6, 2014 at the White House in ...

Pictured by an unknown photographer, five U.S. Marine Corps privates with fixed bayonets under the command of their noncommissioned officer (NCO), who displays his M1859 Marine NCO sword. Navy Yard, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! National Archives Textual Records Division Director Trevor Plante highlighted an original Medal of Honor from the Civil War.

A routine breakfast stop in Georgia suddenly became the beginning of one of the Civil War’s strangest military pursuits.

Julian Scott, a Civil War Hero will be the topic presented by historian Howard Coffin on Sunday, Sept. 20 at the Holcomb House in Johnson. Also speaking will be Phillip ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — 105 years after his death, a Minnesota Civil War veteran finally received military honors at his burial site Saturday in St. Paul. Captain Joseph Burger, who is the grandfather of ...

Civil War Medal of Honor recipient finally receives Headstone Medallion On February 15, 1863, Captain Burger, who was only 14 at the time, and 15 others, heroically defended a wagon train against the ...