Years after the climactic Pennsylvania battle, Doubleday continued to defend his actions and denigrate his superiors
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How Rebel Colonel Bryan Grimes Saved The Day at The Mule Shoe
Quick-thinking North Carolinian took command at a crucial point at Spotsylvania Court House
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12 Forgotten Heroes of Gettysburg
For every Joshua Chamberlain, there was a soldier, blue or gray, whose bravery was overlooked
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There’s a Lost Nuclear Bomb Just Off the Georgia Coast. Should You Be Worried?
During a training exercise in 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber pilot was forced to ditch his payload: a 1.69-megaton H-bomb.
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Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation.
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The Incredible Six-Man Patrol Who Captured 32 POWs in a Single Day
It was 1944, and members of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, were bold enough to take on a seemingly impossible mission.
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Belle Da Costa Greene: The Black Activist’s Daughter Who Reinvented Herself Across the Color Line
A Black activist’s daughter became an It Girl on the other side of segregation.
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Daily Quiz for May 2, 2019
In 1870 Washington College in Lexington Virginia changed its name to this.
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Battle of Honey Springs Decided Control of Indian Territory
Black and Native American soldiers outnumbered whites in overlooked July 1863 clash in what is now Oklahoma.
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Waking the Hermit
In 1871 the U.S. Navy and Marines mounted a punitive expedition against Korea, a kingdom that wanted nothing to do with the modern Western world