He led the attack in the first Battle of Adobe Walls:
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 11, 2007
The Sioux Uprising in the summer of 1862, which resulted in more than 800 white settlers dead and 38 Sioux Indians condemned and hanged, took place in this state.
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 10, 2007
American author Sinclair Lewis declined this, asserting that awards made writers "safe, polite, obedient and sterile."
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 9, 2007
In the winter of 1778, American troops stationed at this fort on the Hudson River nicknamed the place "Point Purgatory."
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 8, 2007
This explorer settled the question as to the direction of flow of the Niger River.
Posted inStories
Grenade! The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War
Grenades were used in the Civil War from Vicksburg to Petersburg, but they were often as dangerous to their users as to their targets.
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 7, 2007
He was Wendell Willkie?s running mate in the 1940 U.S. presidential election.
Posted inUncategorized
Daily Quiz for September 6, 2007
He is the only U.S. president to win a Pulitzer Prize:
Posted inStories
America’s Civil War: Arming the South With Guns From the North
Confederate battlefield victories depended in part on supplies of Northern weapons, particularly early in the war. William J. Hardee and Paul J. Semmes were sent North to procure those guns.
Posted inStories
Inside Andersonville: An Eyewitness Account of the Civil War’s Most Infamous Prison
Sergeant Clark N. Thorp of the 19th U.S. Infantry was captured at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga. The solider from Sylvania, Ohio, later wrote this memoir of his 19 months as a prisoner at Andersonville.