Pittsburgh

Codie Eash

U.S. Grant and Alex Hays, Part 4 – “He was weeping like a child”

In the decades after the Civil War, President Ulysses Grant made mournful visits to the grave of his friend Alexander Hays in Pittsburgh.

Rich Condon

William Scroggins - Barber in Allegheny City and veteran of the US Navy in the Civil War

Rich Condon recently stopped by the grave of an African American US Navy veteran in an abandoned cemetery near Pittsburgh.