After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar decades, veterans and their families began to establish veterans' cemeteries ...

Curtis. Part of the Pea Ridge Campaign, this would turn out to be the largest Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi. Also referred to by some as the "Battle of Elkhorn Tavern," the skirmish ...

This is no ordinary Welsh fortress; it holds a special place in the history of one of England’s most famous monarchs ...

Until recently, Pea Ridge was best known for something that happened in 1862—a pivotal Civil War battle. But thanks to its proximity to Walmart’s Bentonville headquarters, it is now ground zero for ...

ARRIVING AT VAN SANT AIRPORT ON A SUMMER MORNING, you set down on an undulating grass strip cut along a ridge that ... a rare World War II primary trainer called a Meyers OTW, and a pea-green ...

Did your ancestors live in the Ozarks in the 1860s? If so, the men in the family probably fought at the nearby Civil War battles of Pea Ridge, Wilson’s Creek, Newtonia, Carthage and Prairie Grove.

In the noonday heat of July 11, 1864, the commander of the battle-hardened II Corps of Robert ... with his state to stay out of the spreading civil war. Union military authorities ordered his ...

Tamara Cherry: Can you tell me about the months of preparation in this battle? TIM COOK: The preparation was essential, and the Canadians had been learning in the terrible environment of the Western ...

Today marks 108 years since the Canadian Corps attacked Vimy Ridge, marking the first ... director of research for the Canadian War Museum: Tamara Cherry: Can you tell me about the months of ...

The American Village in Montevallo hosted a re-enactment of the Battle at Concord Bridge on its 250th anniversary April 19.

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...