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Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

Ms. Wills is the author of a series of books about her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills, who was an enslaved Tennessee man who fought for his freedom during the American Civil War.

Long Island History Civil War veteran receives long overdue honor It took 135 years for Army Private Sandy Wills to get the final salute he deserved after being buried in an unmarked grave.

Civil War ‘s best aspect is the way it sold the conflict between heroes. Marvel’s heroes had battled each other many times over the years, but it rarely went as deep as it did in this story.

Black History takes on a whole new meaning for me this month. I became the first in my family in more than a century to discover that my great-great-great grandfather Sandy Wills, fled his slave ...

Veteran Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors this past August – 135 years after his death. The once enslaved man who had run away to fight in the Civil War in the U.S. Colored Troops ...

As we mark Veterans Day, Cheryl Wills has an update on her 15-year journey to find her Civil War veteran great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills.

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial after his great-great-great-granddaughter, Spectrum News NY1 anchor Cheryl Wills, tracked down his unmarked ...

Wills found her great great-great-grandfather, Sandy Wills, in the military archive for being honorably discharged in 1866.

He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great-granddaughter.