Confederate engineers schemed to blow a section of Yankee earthworks sky-high. The Army of […]
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Wake-up Call: Big Bethel showed that both sides had much to learn about war
The Union’s ability to maintain control of Fort Monroe, Va., during the secession crisis provided the Federals with an important strategic toehold in Confederate territory.
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A Brit Rates Our Generals
One of the world’s foremost military historians evaluates the war’s top commanders. America was […]
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Confederate Statues: Making Defeat Romantic
The Civil War spawned a heroic myth that masked oppression
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Prelude to Pearl
Early on December 7, 1941, an American merchantman, fatally attacked by a Japanese sub […]
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Outkilling the Enemy
Called ‘Demon’ by the Japanese and ‘Iron Ass’ by his own men, Gen. Curtis LeMay made no apologies for conducting an all-out air war.
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Torpedo Squadron Eight and the Frankenplanes of Guadalcanal
Swede Larsen, the prickly commander of Torpedo Squadron Eight, had a radical plan for replacing his decimated air force.
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Cape Cod Chaos: WWI U-Boat Attack
Submarine warfare comes to Massachusetts beach town in 1918
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Poison Pen Confederate: Adalbert Volck’s Etchings Oozed Scorn and Rancor
It was late 1861 and the Baltimore dentist Adalbert Volck faced interrogation by Union Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix over a series of scathing caricatures of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, who had occupied the city the previous May.
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America’s Wolf Packs
American submariners adapted a Nazi tactic and used it against the Japanese with deadly […]