Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Buffalo soldiers under the direction of John “Blackjack” Pershing were tasked with chasing down Mexican revolutionary Pancho ...

University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service. This discussion was part of the American ...

Three veterans are on the ballot in the June gubernatorial primary in New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill, who served in the U.S. Navy ...

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Howard McClellan Thomson shuffled off this mortal ... he favored books over television and had a lifelong passion for Civil War history, particularly as it related to West Tennessee and Shiloh ...

Civil War hero Andrew Jackson Smith was awarded a posthumous medal of honor for risking his life to carry a fallen American flag ... father was training at Fort McClellan in Alabama, he and ...

McClellan was known as a brilliant organizer whose ... Smith was noted for his fighting in the Mexican-American War and at First Bull Run during the Civil War, eventually earning a promotion to ...

George McClellan, so much so he ordered ... men held many of the same views as their commanders. The Civil War killed almost 700,000 American lives with many more being wounded, making it the ...

Trenton is honored to also serve as the final resting place for African American ... the South Ward where Civil War General and former Governor of New Jersey George B. McClellan is buried, along ...

Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its ... while the other side showed an eagle and a large image of Gen. George McClellan. Other balloons in the corps included the ...

However, nothing underscored the latest civil war within the party quite like watching Minority ... “Identify a message that the American people can understand, something we unfortunately haven’t been ...