Watch Children of Civil War Veterans Talk About Their Fathers Our personal connections with the Civil War and its veterans are a lot closer than we think.
29th Infantry Division Keeps Historic Patch Despite Nod to Service in the Confederate Army The patch, introduced during World War I, is a blue and gray yin and yang, referencing the merger of old Union and...
Gen. Sherman's Unlikely Path to Founding a Military School for Officers Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman developed many of the ideas on which contemporary warfare is based and incorporated them into...
This Civil War Battle Helped Launch a President's Career The Civil War battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, involved James Garfield and has been called "the battle that made a...
Soldier's Journals Tell a Vivid Story About the Irish Brigade and Civil War Pvt. William McCarter of the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry was part of the Army of the Potomac's legendary Irish Brigade.
What Confederate President Jefferson Davis Wrote to His Brother Among what Jefferson Davis wrote to his brother, Joseph: "All I have, except my wife and children, I am ready to sacrifice...
Fort Liberty? Bragg and 8 Other Bases Get New Proposed Names to Scrub Confederate Links The proposed names must now go to Congress and be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
How Douglas MacArthur's Father Helped Deliver 'the Death Knell of the Confederacy' Douglas MacArthur's father, Arthur, earned a Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the...
A Hungarian Immigrant's 'Zagonyi Death Ride' Beat the Odds During the Civil War Gen. John C. Fremont appointed Charles Zagonyi to organize and command an elite unit known as the Body Guard or the Jesse...
Harriet Tubman and the Often Overlooked History of Her Civil War Military Raids Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less...
Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary 'Appalled' by Guam Barracks Conditions Navy Secretary Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks...
Air Force Wants Private Company to Take Over its On-Base Hotels The Department of the Air Force, which includes the Space Force, will start accepting requests for proposals this summer...
2 Elite Marine Corps Pilots Reveal What It's Like to Fly a F-35B Fighter Jet In his role as a pilot with the Marine Corps air demonstration team, Maj. Craig Norris flew the F-35B Lightning II at...
Ken Burns Reveals Why He Chose to Tell the Story of 'The American Revolution' Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because...
Veterans’ Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.
