In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...
When traitorous slaveholders led a rebellion in 1861 and attempted to throttle America’s young democracy, the Grand Army of the Republic had a secret weapon to crush the insurrectionists: Coffee. For ...
A new statue now graces the grounds of the Hopkins County historic courthouse, fulfilling a promise made more than a century ...
BRAINERD — Elias Fenstermacher lied about his age to enlist in the Union Army but he served the state of Minnesota honorably when he fought for the North. The private was the last Civil War veteran ...