Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil ...

Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

Our efforts bore fruit. In 1991, President George H. W. Bush posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Corporal Freddie ...

We know what happened next that day from the Army’s perspective largely because of one man, a 26-year-old captain named Silas ...

MONROE, Tenn. (WTVF) — You never know what you'll find going through the family storage. A man in Monroe knows that well. A little sorting led to a discovery connected to US history. This time of year ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

On a Veterans Day ceremony held 160 years after they served their country, four Civil War soldiers were finally honored Tuesday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wyandanch. It was believed to be the first ...

The service of Black soldiers in wars such as World War II significantly influenced the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring demands for equality within the military and throughout the United States. Sign ...

The Salem chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic established the circle to provide an honorable resting place for Union soldiers. Several veterans originally interred nearby at what is now Salem ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) - - A bill to dedicate a stretch of M-22 in Peshawbestown to Native American volunteer Civil War soldiers of Company K remains stalled in the Michigan House, ...

A Korean War soldier finally received the military funeral he deserved on what would have been his 93rd birthday. Pfc. Vincent Vega was laid to rest on Oct. 3 in Elwood, Illinois. According to Legion ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) - More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online through a new website created by the ...