According to Nebraska historian James E. Potter, Nebraskan soldiers carried out a motley variety of tasks: “Nebraskans fought Confederates on Tennessee and Missouri battlefields, carried on a ‘bushwhacker’s’ war with partisans in Arkansas, skirmished…

The story begins with a caretaker of Laurel Hill Cemetery, who, as the story goes, stumbled upon a grave beyond the realm of where he normally maintained the plots. The grave he found was of Edward Jones, a runaway slave who enlisted in the Union…

Colonel William Kinsman was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 11, 1832. In 1855, Kinsman took up residence in Council Bluffs and enlisted as a volunteer with the 4th Iowa after the outbreak of the Civil War.Kinsman was the commander of…