Articles Tagged: Civil War

Distant sections of a family tree reunited Monday after a search revealed the identity of an unidentified War of 1812 veteran burial.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

After almost 14 years of wondering, I finally learned how my great-great-great-grandfather died in the Civil War. I have the …

On a recent two-day trip seeking Iowa history, Marion and Rich Patterson discovered that Keokuk is much like its abundant geodes: ordinary on the outside, and sparkling on the inside.

Today’s Jens Jensen is stewarding the relatively new Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park, named for his ancestor. It’s nestled into the grounds of the Museum of Danish America. Located in the tiny town of Elk Horn, about 200 miles west of Cedar Rapids, the museum is emerging as a fascinating place for people of all ethnic backgrounds to visit.

From flower festivals and patriotic parades to county fairs and hot air balloons taking to the skies, there is so much to do, see and celebrate around Eastern Iowa in the coming months.

More than a century ago, a Civil War cannon proudly sat in Greene Square in Cedar Rapids. Today, the park is cannon-less and Scott Huffman of Cedar Rapids wants to know where the cannon went.

Oak Hill Cemetery in Cedar Rapids tells our shared stories.

History Happenings: A 200-pound howitzer brought home to Cedar Rapids by Union veterans after the Civil War has disappeared and reappeared over the years.

Dedicated Civil War re-enactors portray what daily camp life looked like during the war