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During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains ...
Private Benjamin W. Varnell of Co. B, 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment with plumed had. 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted RiflemenState service, March 4, 1861 - mid-April 1861. Confederate service, mid-April 1861 - mid-April 1862 as the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, also known as the First Texas Mounted Rifles (mustered out at the expiration of the enlistme
Mound City National Cemetery: Jct. of IL 37 and US 51: Mound City: Pulaski County: Illinois: October 8, 1997 Quincy National Cemetery: 36th & Main Sts: Quincy: Adams County: Illinois: May 6, 2011 Rock Island National Cemetery: 0.25 mi N of southern tip of Rock Island: Moline: Rock Island County: Illinois: June 13, 1997 Crown Hill National ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Archaeologists have exhumed the remains of one person and plan to exhume a second set as the search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resumes in a Tulsa cemetery ...
Daniel, who was in his 20s, was among those killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre, his family says.. More than 100 years later, the city of Tulsa honored Daniel at a memorial service last week after ...
USS Mound City was a City-class ironclad gunboat built for service on the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the American Civil War. Originally commissioned as part of the Union Army 's Western Gunboat Flotilla , she remained in that service until October 1862.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre saw a white mob torch the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more commonly known as “Black Wall Street.” FOX 5 “They had been trying to reach a number of ...
Especially prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Montgomery and his family used the defense of his fort home. Several times southerners and border ruffians attempted to shoot persons inside or set the fort on fire. During the Civil War, Montgomery, an officer in the U.S. Army, was away much of the time on military duty. Through the war ...