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Michigan Senate OKs bill to honor Native American Civil War vets with memorial highway

A proposal to honor Native American Civil War veterans from Company K cleared a major hurdle in Lansing, with the state S ...
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Civil War Veteran Reburied with Honors at Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery

HURLOCK, Md. - A Union soldier from the Civil War was laid to rest once more in what his family says is his rightful home among fellow veterans. Nicholas Waters, who served in the United States ...
KCCI Des Moines

Civil War veterans receive headstones at Glendale Cemetery

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 ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Descendants of Civil War veterans clean Union soldiers’ headstones at Lawrence’s Pioneer Cemetery

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 ...
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Lawmakers push for recognition of Native American Civil War veterans

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) - - Lawmakers in Lansing are working to honor a group of Native American veterans who served in the Civil War. Rep. John Roth, R-104th District, emphasized the ...
WEAU

Mission Accomplished: Three civil war veterans now marking history with new headstones

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) - A trio of veterans with unmarked graves in Chippewa Falls will now be remembered for years to come. The search for their relatives began before Veterans Day, with the ...
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Westmoreland veterans organization seeks descendants of Civil War soldier for Memorial Day ceremony

How to get involved The George A. Cribbs Camp 276 meets at noon on the first Saturday of each month at St. John's Harrold Reformed United Church of Christ, located at 103 St. John's Church Road in ...
Newsday

Civil War, WWI vets finally get gravestones at Sayville cemetery

Beneath the grass at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, the graves of several soldiers have long sat unmarked. Over a period of months, local volunteer Wayne Haddock cross-referenced military service ...
The Providence Journal

A Civil War veteran from RI was buried in an unmarked grave. Now he's getting his due.

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John Leach ...
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Dalton teenager finds sword that was gifted to Civil War veterans and their families in home that once belonged to Zenas Marshall Crane

That’s what 14-year-old Christopher George shouted when he found a late 19th century sword buried under sawdust in the attic of his family home in Dalton. The property has seen its fair share of ...

Civil War soldiers honored in Harrisburg on Veterans Day

The names of members of the United States Colored Troops who served in the Civil War were read at the National Civil War ...
KETV Omaha

Civil War veterans receive headstones at Iowa cemetery

I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO. 15 CIVIL WAR VETERANS NOW HAVE PROPER GRAVE MARKERS IN DES MOINES, CLINTON GLENDALE CEMETERY. A RETIRED DES MOINES FIRE INVESTIGATOR LED THE EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION. HE HAD THE ...