The ink was barely dry on the Emancipation Proclamation when two Union soldiers rode […]
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Torn on the Fourth of July
Defeats in the East and West doomed the Confederacy. July 1863 would have been […]
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Payoff in Tokyo Bay
In September 1945 General Douglas MacArthur commanded center stage aboard the battleship Missouri as Japan’s surrender ended World War II
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Cease Fire: Nights of the Round Table
More than half a century ago, the late Ralph G. Newman of Chicago came […]
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Society of the Cincinnati
A fraternity of revolutionary officers—or a monarchist conspiracy? In May 1782, seven months after […]
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What We Learned from the Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, fought in middle Tennessee on April 6 and 7, 1862, […]
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Put to the Sword
Banastre Tarleton and his ruthless British Legion. History loves a villain, and Banastre Tarleton […]
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Frederick’s One Big Idea
The Prussian king strove for a well-ordered state—no matter the cost. We hardly know […]
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Camouflage: You Know It When You See It
From Khaki drab origins, camouflage has entered the realm of the invisible man. Camouflage […]
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Killed at Gettysburg
Letters reveal pain of those left behind. In the weeks following the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, tens of thousands of families waited anxiously for word of the fate of their loved ones and friends serving in the contending armies. Had they been killed in the fighting? Had they survived only to suffer from agonizing wounds in crude, makeshift hospitals? The vivid contemporary evidence, found in the pension files for two Pennsyl-vania soldiers who fell at Gettysburg, sheds light on two different families’ ordeals in the aftermath of the Civil War’s largest battle.