Newsday

Robert Farrell of Huntington completes 20-year quest to catalog Civil War soldiers, sailors with Long Island connection

Confederate soldiers, brothers fighting on opposing sides and more than 100 veterans buried in Australia — these are just a few of the surprises uncovered by Robert Farrell, a retired aerospace ...
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Richland History Group hosts Soldiers and Sailors curator for Civil War retrospective

For the first two years of the American Civil War, supporters of the North seemed to hear almost solely about battle victories by the South. “You have to imagine how terrified people became when the ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

2 Civil War sailors from USS Monitor buried in Virginia

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret when it was raised a decade ago were ...
Miami Herald

For Civil War sailors, some closure 151 years later

Only a few years ago, Diana Rambo learned a distant relative had served on the USS Monitor, the warship that elementary school lessons had taught her played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Soon, the ...
Erie Times-News

Learn about the Civil War veterans who were the first Erie soldiers' home residents

The first Memorial Day observance at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie on May 30, 1887, was "impressive in the extreme," according to the Erie Morning Dispatch. The home had been ...
insider.si.edu

Black sailors in the Civil War a history of fugitives, freemen and freedmen aboard Union vessels James H. Bruns

"That will do": Towards Freedom -- Runaways -- Robert Smalls -- Northern Black Mariners -- Recruiting in Major Cities -- Welcome to the Navy -- The Need for Army Contrabands and Its Fleet -- From ...
WKYC3

Civil War dog to be commemorated with statue in Cleveland's Public Square

CLEVELAND — A figure in Northeast Ohio's Civil War history will be commemorated with a statue on Cleveland's Public Square -- though he's not the typical war hero you'd expect. The Soldiers' and ...
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Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument, (sculpture)

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 225. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania ...
Richmond

2 Civil War sailors from the Monitor are buried at Arlington

ARLINGTON One hundred and fifty years after their Civil War ironclad sank, two unknown sailors from the warship Monitor were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. “This may well be ...
WAPT

2 Civil War sailors to be buried at Arlington

A century and a half after the Civil War ship the USS Monitor sank, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Friday's ceremony will include ...
Richmond

2 Civil War sailors from the Monitor are buried at Arlington

ARLINGTON One hundred and fifty years after their Civil War ironclad sank, two unknown sailors from the warship Monitor were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.