Like tempered steel, the 7th Rhode Island emerged stronger and tougher from the Fredericksburg inferno.
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Stanton’s Hitman: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt had the power to bring down generals
When Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton called Joseph Holt into his office on July 18, 1862, it was to offer him the powerful post of judge advocate general.
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Wild West Book Review: Ballots and Bullets
Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas by Robert K. DeArment, […]
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Sold for Shells
With their country’s reservoir of young men almost depleted after the horrendous losses suffered at Verdun, the French approached their Russian ally with a plan for an unusual exchange: materiel for manpower
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The First Assassination Attempt on Martin Luther King Jr.
A decade before he was gunned down, a madwoman stuck a shiv in the civil rights leader’s chest.
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Big Trouble: The Legacy of Mountain Meadows
A bloody attack on an emigrant wagon train that occurred in a remote location […]
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Opening Antwerp
In the fall of 1944, as ‘Monty’ obsessed about a bridge too far, Canadian units fought to secure Europe’s largest port
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Terror at Sea: The Tragic Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
When the USS Indianapolis sank in shark-infested waters, the Navy unjustly held its captain responsible. It took more than 50 years to clear his name.
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Kut
In a largely forgotten campaign of World War I, 36,000 British and Indian troops fought, bled, shivered, starved, sweated, scratched, and died of Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia