With two Confederate emissaries in U.S. custody, Britain’s Prince Albert stepped in to prevent […]
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The Navy’s big, green monster
The first U.S. submarine targeted wretched Rebel ironclads.
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War On The Water: Miracle at Sabine Pass
Before dawn on September 8, 1863, the gunners of Company F, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery—known as the Davis Guards, in honor of the Confederate president—aimed their contingent of cannons at a Yankee flotilla steaming toward the rudimentary earthworks of Fort Griffin.
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Poetry | To Fight Another Day
In 1913, after working as a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars, Service—by then widely known as “The Bard of the Yukon”—moved to Paris. He was 41 when World War I broke out. Turned down for military service, he briefly covered the war for the Toronto Star and then worked as a stretcher-bearer and ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.
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Bohemian Catastrophe
Sparked by a revolt in Bohemia, the Thirty Years’ War should have ended on a mountaintop near Prague in 1620, yet it dragged on another 28 years
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Army Life in Brush Strokes
A Union veteran completed a remarkable sketchbook of his war service Frederick E. Ransom […]
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Daily Quiz for November 7, 2017
The only heavyweight boxing champion to retire undefeated, he held the title from 1952-1956.
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Hallowed Ground: Cold Harbor, Virginia
By the late spring of 1864 Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was advancing on […]
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One Revolution, Two Wars
Redcoats were not the only enemies of American Independence.