Civil War veteran honored with period-accurate grave marker

A Civil War Union soldier, Samuel R. Arbuthnot, finally has a period-accurate stone grave marker in Forest Park Cemetery, ...
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We found a slave cemetery — but that wasn't the real surprise

Deep in the woods lies a forgotten plantation-era slave cemetery, where generations of enslaved people and their descendants were buried. While exploring the site, researchers also uncovered evidence ...
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Civil War-era graves being moved as expansion begins at Mater Dei

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Happening Wednesday in Evansville, grave sites containing the remains of around 20 “pioneer and Civil War veterans” (according to a historical plaque in the old cemetery) are ...

A Stroudsburg native served as Lincoln's substitute in the Civil War

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln hired a man from Stroudsburg to represent him in the military? The grave of that man, John ...
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A Kansas memorial lists 15 Black soldiers killed during the Civil War. Their lives are a mystery.

There are 15 names on a stone monument in a shoulder of the cemetery that stand as a testament to the struggle for a living ...