Mike Hadl, left, and Tom Schmidt, right, both members of Lawrence's chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, stand behind a new headstone dedicated to Civil War veteran Doc ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

Capt. John E. Perkins, the company commander, named him "Old Abe" after President Lincoln, commissioned a special "union shield" perch for the bird and assigned one of his troops to look after him.

Although Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the head of the Union Army, on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, the Civil War did not end until 16 ...

Civil War Monument in the State Street park across from the Schenectady County Court House Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) ...