The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad survived numerous hardships of the Civil War in its service to the Union.
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USS Indianola: Union Ironclad in the American Civil War
The powerful Union ironclad Indianola was jinxed from the start–poor design and bad morale made the vessel an accident waiting to happen. Near Vicksburg, she ultimately fulfilled her ill-starred destiny.
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Battle of New Market Heights: USCT Soldiers Proved Their Heroism
On a gunfire-swept slope near Richmond on September 29, 1864, USCT soldiers stood to the test and proved black men made good professional troops. Fourteen of them received the Medal of Honor for their bravery.
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USS Missouri: Served in World War II and Korean War
World War II ended on the deck of the USS Missouri. Five years later the Korean War broke out–and the ‘Mighty Mo’ was the only U.S. battleship ready to fight.
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Harry Truman and the 1948 U.S. Presidential Election
The press and the polls agreed: Harry Truman was certain to lose. But instead of giving up, the president decided to ‘give ’em hell.’
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U.S. Navy Captain Charles Gridley and the Battle of Manila Bay
U.S. Navy Captain Charles Gridley earned a place in history on May 1, 1898, during the Battle of Manila Bay.
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Account Of The Battle of the Wilderness
In the dark, forbidding woods of Virginia’s Wilderness, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee stumbled blindly toward their first wartime encounter. Neither had a clear idea of his opponent’s intentions, but each planned to do what he did best–attack.
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Weaponry: The Rapier
Through its long history, the rapier was more a weapon of choice for gentlemen than soldiers.
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Battle of Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry was the scene of an important 1862 battle in Lee’s Maryland campaign and a prelude to ‘Bloody Antietam.’
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Black Hawk War
Outnumbered and harried through trackless swamps, Black Hawk’s starving band of Sauk Indians made a desperate stand along the Mississippi.