As Union warships steamed past the Confederate defenses near Port Royal, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont proudly noted that army officers aboard his ship looked on ‘with wonder and admiration.’ A revolution in naval tactics had begun.
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Eyewitness to American Civil War: Iron Brigade Soldier’s Wartime Letters
Timothy Webster survived Fredericksburg and Gettysburg with the Iron Brigade, but not Petersburg.
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America’s Civil War: Desperate Ironclad Assault at Trent’s Reach
With Confederate forces strangled at Petersburg, the Southern Navy prepared to assault the enemy’s supply depot at City Point. But first, Rebel ships had to get past Trent’s Reach.
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Battle of Monroe’s Cross Roads
Union General William Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, ‘a hell of a damn fool.’ At Monroe’s Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and disobedience of orders proved Sherman’s point.
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Picture of the Day: August 22
The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (far left) and Soviet […]
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Picture of the Day: August 23
Sacco and Vanzetti Executed On August 23, 1927, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco (right) and […]
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Boudica: Celtic War Queen Who Challenged Rome
It was easy for Emperor Nero to dismiss a woman from a barbarian tribe in faraway Britannia. But when Boudica and her warriors decimated a legion, Rome took her seriously.
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Picture of the Day: August 21
Conservation of the American Buffalo By 1902, federal efforts to prevent the extinction of […]
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WWII Raids on Rabaul, November 1943
After months of minor raiding, the U.S. Navy’s new aircraft carriers took on a major target when they attacked Japan’s key bastion in the Solomons in November 1943.
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Picture of the Day: August 19
Development of the Daguerreotype At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in […]