Union Capt. Jonathan Taylor’s sword will officially be welcomed home to Bethlehem 161 years to the day after its young owner carried it into fateful battle. The weapon will be part of a display at ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — What veterans here call a prized possession has made its way back home. Lieutenant Ezra Griffin is a big part of Scranton's history. Born and raised in Providence, what is now North ...

Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...

At 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton and Civil War ...