‘We Must Make Free Men of Them’:
Confederate General Patrick Cleburne wanted to enlist slaves to fight for the Rebel cause.
Three men formed a company to carry on a tradition started by Maj. Dick Winters to keep the memory of WWII veterans alive by taking tour groups along the path of the “band of brothers.”
Parliament’s modern army faces off against the Royalists at Naseby in 1645.
Former cavalry officer Jonathan Wainwright sank to unimaginable depths after he was compelled to surrender American forces to the Japanese in the Philippines in April 1942.
The Bombing of Germany, a new episode of American Experience on PBS, delivers some new wrinkles in examining this well-covered subject, enhanced by excellent period film footage and interviews with survivors.
Two words came to define McDowell’s military prowess for the general’s most critical
superiors: ‘Bull’ and ‘Run’
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell and the Virginia Civil War sesquicentennial commission remember the […]
Civil War battle strategy can be tricky enough itself to convey, but that wasn’t what was giving German journalist Hermann Schmid problems in Gettysburg last fall.
Biographies of Civil War generals have appealed to generations of Americans. Famous commanders often […]
In only 70 days, Japanese troops on bicycles sidestepped static defenses to capture the Malay Peninsula, and in an audacious ruse convinced the British to surrender Singapore.
