‘We Must Make Free Men of Them’:
Confederate General Patrick Cleburne wanted to enlist slaves to fight for the Rebel cause.
Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., was established on June 15 of this year.
The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden in England preserves an invaluable array of vintage RAF airplanes.
John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal It would be hard to imagine a more […]
In the 1864 “bayonet election,” the soldier vote—and a timely Union success—helped a pro-war civilian, Lincoln, defeat a pro-peace general, McClellan.
After a staggering loss of life on Iwo Jima, American military leaders scrambled to justify the invasion.
When Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, the force that had numbered from 65,000 to upwards of 75,000 men less than two years earlier at Gettysburg was down to approximately this many troops.
Historian Donald L. Miller shares his reading list with WORLD WAR II magazine.
Two words came to define McDowell’s military prowess for the general’s most critical
superiors: ‘Bull’ and ‘Run’
‘Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds’
