With the fate of Washington at stake, Lew Wallace’s assignment was clear. The message […]
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Confessions of a Would-Be Wolf of Wall Street
From Manhattan to the White House, Joseph Howard Jr.’s Great Gold Hoax causes a […]
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Book Review: Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm
Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm: To Surprise and Capture Richmond By […]
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Rebel Retreat at Carnifex Abbey
As citizens across the North reeled at news of the Union Army’s debacles at […]
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Divided No More: A Park at Antietam
The creation of a battlefield park at Antietam was contentious and uncertain, much like […]
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Airmail’s First Day
The Post Office called on Army Air Service pilots to carry the first airmail. Despite numerous hardships, the first flying postmen usually made their appointed rounds.
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Von Ripper: Painter with a Gun
Australian Baron Rudolph Von Ripper’s adventurous life included stints as a soldier in three […]
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What We Learned from Coral Sea, 1942
The Japanese had prevailed at the tactical level. Strategically, however, the battle was a pivotal Allied victory.
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The Poets of Hell
These few Englishmen described the brutal realities of the trenches, not as effete observers […]
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Taking Crimea… Again
Armies from antiquity to the present day have wrangled over this patch of ground […]