An army of determined Southern women buried the dead but kept
the mythic Confederate legacy of the Lost Cause alive
Why do so many myths persist about the events of Jun 25, 1876, when the Sioux and Cheyenne defeated Lt. Col. George Custer in Montana Territory?
On a bleak hillside overlooking the battleground of Sailor’s Creek, General Robert E. Lee […]
Robert E. Lee and Slavery, P. 30 Sources for Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s “Robert E. […]
Shortly after Bill Downing arrived in Willcox, Arizona Territory, in the 1890s, he shot a man, robbed a train and faced off with Ranger Billy Speed
Did Philip Sheridan forever tarnish a major Union victory by abruptly relieving Gouverneur Warren […]
In 1940 and 1941, American soldiers participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers, a series of war games that forged a common experience, trained them for combat and identified their future commanders.
It seemed all South Vietnam was ablaze in the early hours of the 1968 Tet Offensive as a Huey helicopter gunship pilot performed a death-defying aerial maneuver to rescue an Australian unit ambushed and pinned down by a Viet Cong .50-caliber gunner.
General Winfield Scott called him “the very best soldier I ever saw in the field” and suggested the U.S. government insure his life for $5 million.
The 1838 Battle of Battle Creek, Texas, also known as the Surveyors’ Fight, pitted a surveying party comprised of veterans of the Texas Revolution against a Kickapoo war band.
