Major Sullivan Ballou gained fame for the poignant letter he wrote to his wife before the First Battle of Bull Run. Not so well known is that after he was mortally wounded in that fight, Confederates dug up, decapitated and burned his body.
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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.
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Raid on St. Nazaire: Operation Chariot During World War II
The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, in 1942 was a display of cunning and skill overcoming limited resources–eliminating a vital German port facility and cementing the commandos’ reputation as redoubtable fighters.
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General George C. Kenney: Pioneer of Aerial Warfare Strategy and Tactics in World War II’s Pacific Theater
General George C. Kenney pioneered aerial warfare strategy and tactics in the Pacific theater.
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America’s Civil War: Missouri and Kansas
For half a decade before the Civil War, residents of the neighboring states of Missouri and Kansas waged their own civil war. It was a conflict whose scars were a long time in healing.
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America’s Civil War: Battle for Kentucky
It had been almost one month since Confederate General Braxton Bragg had pulled off an organizational masterpiece—four weeks since the first troop trains had rumbled into Chattanooga, Tennessee, completing an improbable 800-mile odyssey.
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Operation Meade River: Marine Search-and-Destroy Cordon of the Vietnam War
Operation Meade River in ‘Dodge City’ was the largest and most successful Marine search-and-destroy cordon of the war.
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Horace Pippin: World War I Veteran and Artist
World War I veteran Horace Pippin used art to purge himself of the horrors of the trenches.
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Abraham Lincoln: Deciding the Fate of 300 Indians Convicted of War Crimes in Minnesota’s Great Sioux Uprising
Even as the Civil War intensified, President Abraham Lincoln faced the aftereffects of a bloody Indian war in Minnesota. More than 300 men faced execution, but the death sentences required the president’s approval.