He said soldiers were eager to get from the camp and onto the war, but Isely got sick and was left behind. “His regiment went away without him, and he was left here.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

DECATUR - On a grassy knoll in Fairview Park, near the tennis courts, a Civil War monument guarded by cannons commemorates the service of soldiers from Macon County. The names of 2,085 men who ...