Five years ago this month, I was stunned to learn that my great-great-great grandfather was buried on a hill that sits on a former slave plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. Sandy Wills ...

Veteran Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors this past August – 135 years after his death. The once enslaved man who had run away to fight in the Civil War in the U.S. Colored Troops and ...

It took 135 years for Army Private Sandy Wills to get the final salute he deserved after being buried in an unmarked grave. NewsdayTV’s Virginia Huie reports. Credit: Anthony Florio; Photo credit: ...

Former U.S. Army convoy commander Stephen Robinson is part of a new crop of "urban farmers": veterans turning to farming after fighting. Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was ...