Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Sandy Wills emancipated himself from slavery during the height of the Civil War and enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in 1863. Five years ago, Cheryl Wills learned her great-great-great ...

It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great ...

Wills found her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, in the military archive for being honorably discharged in 1866. He was a Civil War veteran who married Emma Moore West and had nine ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a former ...

Ombersley Court’s cast of characters and the family’s complex lineage included a stead succession of MPs, members of the clergy, cousins who fought on oppsoing sides of the English Civil War and one .