For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Colonel William Colvill of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, a lawyer and newspaperman before the Civil War, was the first man in his county to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Volunteers gathered at a Rockford cemetery to honor Civil War veterans by cleaning their gravestones. Jennifer Dyer Mickelson has been honoring civil war veterans for ...

volunteer organizations, and even civilians. It was almost two full years after the end of the Civil War before Congress finally passed formal legislation to establish and protect a vast system of ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to ... sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois ...

In total, some 50,000 volunteers from 54 countries came to ... to Spain to fight alongside the Republican side in the civil war. Their motivation was the defense of civil rights and the fight ...

The Manitowoc County Historical Society is celebrating 100 years since the organization was gifted the Flag of Company A.