The 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment suffered the greatest single day loss of any U.S. Army unit ever during the Battle of Gettysburg. It seems like a tragedy – and generally,…
Union and Confederate forces fought the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. It pitted the Union Forces against the Confederate Army. After the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate…
Ohio native John Clem might have been small in stature, but he was big of heart. After running away from home following the death of his mother in 1861, he…
Times were simpler in the days of the Civil War. Back then, any ol’ college professor might volunteer for the Union Army and become a straight up slayer of bodies,…
Galusha Pennypacker came from a long line of military family members. His grandfather fought in the American Revolution, his father served in the Mexican-American War, and his distant cousin was…
Before World War I, the U.S. Marine Corps wasn’t the true expeditionary warfighting branch that it is today. It was frequently neglected, underfunded, and at one point entirely disbanded.
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By April 1862, the American Civil War was a year old and neither side had the upper hand. The fighting was particularly brutal in Tennessee, a border state heavily divided between Union and Confederate sympathizers. Grant won a pyrrhic victory at th…
It’s hard to determine which is more surprising: the British aching to send troops and materiel to aid the Confederacy during the Civil War or that the first “Special Relationship” was between the U.S. and Russia against the British. Bot…
Every workplace has them: the loudest, most boisterous employees, constantly talking about how much work they’re doing and how good they are at their jobs or making a scene with their after-work activities. Meanwhile, quietly plugging away somewher…
In section 42 of Beaufort National Cemetery is a modest private marker for Emma Morrill Fogg French. In addition to her name and years of birth and death — 1831-1898 — is the simple inscription “Hospital Nurse.”
Emma (or Emeline) M. Morr…