IRWIN, Pa. — A gun salute and the sound of taps filled the air at the Union Cemetery in Irwin just after noon on Monday to honor John Ernest Weigel. “It’s crazy just to have so many people even like ...

John E. Wiegel was the last Union veteran from the Civil War to be laid to rest in Westmoreland County. While no one who was gathered at Irwin Union Cemetery on Memorial Day ever met Private John E.

Dan and Robert explore the final resting place of a Union ...

Arthur Carter was always proud of his lineage. “The first night I met him at a mixer at Georgetown University, he told me all about the Eastern Shore of Virginia,” said his widow, Marsha Carter. “He ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The ...

More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west ...

LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -Upgrades to Lynn Haven’s Monument Park, which features a statue of a Union Soldier facing North, are now completed. Park updates include new landscaping, walking paths, ...