With the explosive crack of the assassin’s Derringer pistol, Major Henry Rathbone jumped to his feet in an effort to…
Prologue On Saturday, September 27, 1856, Colonel Roswell B. Mason, engineer-in-chief for the Illinois Central Railroad Company, notified the railroad’s…
The years immediately after the end of the American Civil War in 1865, U.S. President Andrew Johnson and the Republican…
In 1848, the Wisconsin Territory joined the Union of States as Wisconsin – America’s 30th state. In the first few…
In the spring of 1884 Dubuque, Iowa was alive with military splendor as the city played host to the largest…
I first became active in locating and documenting Civil War veteran graves in the early 1990’s as part of a…
On Sunday, October 9, 1966 U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, younger brother of the late President John…