Family genealogy leads Greensburg man to ancestor's Civil War battle exploits
John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...
Author William Boyd explains how Nigerian Civil War experience shaped his work
The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War ...
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Pottsville soldier carried Abraham Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre after he was shot on April 14, 1865
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...
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Civil War statue stands tall again outside Mercer County Courthouse
The wind storm blew over part of the Civil War monument that stood outside the Mercer County Courthouse, but crews attached ...
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‘They chose to serve’: United States Colored Troops members honored at City Cemetery
City Cemetery was the site of a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday afternoon, during which local United States Colored Troops ...
Trump’s move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man’s heroics at 18 in World War I
For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump ...
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What Gettysburg teaches us about Ukraine and America
Trump also said battlefield photographs of the war in the Ukraine reminded him of the Battle of Gettysburg. “It’s soldiers lying ... Lincoln transformed the Civil War from a struggle to ...
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The Son of an American Legion Founder Led a Guerrilla Campaign of Terror Against the Nazis
With a Ph.D. in civil engineering and with his socioeconomic ... he tried to get his son to sit out the Second World War at the family farm in Pennsylvania. The younger Wood did as he was told ...