Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez wrote a controversial memoir disclosing her activities as a double agent and brave soldier during the Civil War.
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Battle of Gettysburg: Confederate General Richard Ewell’s Failure on the Heights
For the second day in a row, Confederate General Richard Ewell inexplicably failed to take the offensive at Gettysburg. ‘The fruits of victory, Robert E. Lee lamented, had not been gathered.
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Paul Revere’s True Account of the Midnight Ride
According to Paul Revere’s account of his historic 1775 ride, warning the countryside of the approach of the British was more a team effort than is generally realized.
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Battle of Stony Point
Relying on cold steel and the cover of darkness, General Anthony Wayne’s elite Light Corps seized British-held Stony Point, New York, in one of the most daring operations of the Revolutionary War.
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Did Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell Lose the Battle of Gettysburg
After disobeying Robert E. Lee’s orders to avoid a general engagement at Gettysburg, Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell received an order to ‘press those people.’ His failure to do so created a controversy that survives to this day.
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Shaka: Zulu Chieftain
Disgraced and cast out from his own tribe, Shaka went on to build a vast Zulu empire based on sheer terror, butchery and military brilliance.
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Pearl Harbor Attack: Lieutenant Lawrence Ruff Survived the Attack Aboard the USS Nevada
Surrounded by smoke and flame, the battleship made for the open sea in an attempt to escape the devastation at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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T.E. Lawrence: The Enigmatic ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
T.E. Lawrence turned Arab Bedouin tribes into a powerful guerrilla army against the Turks, then fought to get them justice from Britain.
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America’s Civil War: Digging to Victory at Vicksburg
To the armies at Vicksburg, picks, shovels and manual labor proved as valuable as bullets and bombshells.
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America’s Civil War: Struggle for St. Louis
The dark clouds of civil war gathered over the nation as two aggressive factions — the Wide-Awakes and the Minutemen — plotted to gain political control of Missouri and its most important city, St. Louis. As is often the case, political power began at the end of a gun.