When Confederate fortunes plummeted in Missouri, fearsome guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill and his band of hardened killers headed east to terrorize Union soldiers and civilians in Kentucky. It would be Quantrill’s last hurrah.
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Germs, deadlier than bullets?
Germs, not bullets, were a Civil War soldier’s deadliest foes. Army doctors were a […]
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WASPS of War
Nancy Harkness Love proved her mettle in the air and gained recognition for women […]
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Ernest Shackleton’s Polar Dreams, Polar Disappointments
In some ways, Ernest Shackleton is the forgotten man in the history of Antarctic exploration, overshadowed by both the successes and tragedies of his famous rivals
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Ernest Shackleton: Polar Dreams, Polar Disappointments Part II
With the arrival of spring, Ernest Shackleton and a small party of hardy pioneers set out from their Antarctic base camp toward the far-off South Pole
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Soldier of Misfortune
For more than two years, George St. Leger Grenfel did everything he could to […]
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The Widow-Makers
The Civil War’s deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.
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They paid to enter Libby Prison
A drafty Richmond deathtrap for captured Yankees became a tourist trap after the war–600 miles away!
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THE SAVIOR OF CINCINNATI
Long before he published Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace rose from a career as an obscure small-town Indiana lawyer to take a prominent role in the Civil War.