Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

Pistols used during the American Civil War hold a significant place in the ... These pistols were primarily used by cavalry and officers. Most were cap and ball revolvers which allowed for ...

Equality: Civil-Military Relations in the Jacksonian Era ... The contemporary process in the United States has been neglected, but Capt. William S. Nance, “American Great War Cavalry Doctrine, ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... 14 th Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, who received an “accidental wound” of the phalangeal ...

On both sides, the Civil ... war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or presented to the leaders of ...

As you march today as an expression of freedom, think back to the American Civil War 1861-1865. Conventional wisdom would have us all believe that most of the boys who ...