Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...
Along a dusty road in rural Georgia lies the grave of Benjamin Williams, believed to be the youngest soldier to serve in the Civil War. Enlisting as a child alongside his father, his grave and ...
The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.
“In the Mahaiwe Cemetery … there’s a headstone for several individuals of the Ford family,” Steve McAlister emailed me in 2022. The senior architect with Clark Green + Beck Architecture Design in ...
A Juneteenth ceremony will honor 52 Black veterans of the Civil War buried at North Burial Ground in Providence, RI. The Juneteenth Project partners with the city cemetery to highlight the veterans' ...