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Why wouldn’t we want to name it after the great heroes that we do have in the U.S. Army? They reflect the best of America. Inspirational people with inspirational stories.” — Brigadier General Ty ...
New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...
Alfred and Robert Taylor were brothers campaigning to be Tennessee's governor in 1886. Their race was civil and a hopeful model for modern candidates.
Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both sides occupied it at times.
Traverse City community members spent a morning in remembrance of a Civil War Veteran who's grave was left unmarked for over ...
Lookout Mountain duo Grant Alling (117) and Clayton Duke (118) came in third and fourth, respectively, while Cleveland' Hayes Garner and Fletcher Wakefield, also from Lookout Mountain, tied for fifth ...
John Otto, a sergeant in Company D, 21st Wisconsin, was a German immigrant who settled in Appleton, Wi. Soon after his enlistment, he found himself in the deadly strife of the American Civil War and ...
Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...
Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.
Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.
A Civil War veteran from RI was buried in an unmarked grave. Now he's getting his due. Civil War Veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in ...
Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...