The American Legion Post 77 members and residents planted hundreds of American flags at the graves of fallen soldiers at the Woodland Cemetery on Memorial Day. (Taylor Heeden Larkins/Daily Democrat) ...

Army Pvt. Charles William Smalley Jr., a Chesterton native, was 19 when he died in combat in 1944 but no one knew where his body went.

As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed toward Fort Wagner, South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell. It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of ...