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 ...

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

With a few keystrokes at Ancestry.com, Wills learned she was the descendant of Sandy Wills, a slave who, at the height of the Civil War, escaped from his master and joined the United States ...

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 ...

Honoring a Civil War veteran who was lost to history Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found ... and ultimately to Private Sandy Wills' remains. ...

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. Cheryl Wills has more on the remarkable story.

Cheryl Wills' research on Sandy, his wife, Emma, and other slaves who escaped the plantation became the basis for her book "Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale" published in January by Bascom Hill.

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 ...

Sandy Wills enlisted to fight in the Civil War, with the 4th Field Heavy Artillery, Company G. His determination is the common thread that is woven through generations of Wills’ family.

Cheryl's great-great-great grandfather Sandy Wills was a runaway slave who fought with the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. "In 1850, he was sold to Edmund Wills, which is why I'm Cheryl ...

Sandy was a slave who escaped from his master and joined the United States Colored Troops to fight in the Civil War. Wills based her book, “Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale,” on thousands of ...