"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is ...
It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice ... In 1776, then-Gen. George Washington spared a Connecticut ...
Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate who joined the Confederacy after Virginia's secession. At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men ...
The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are ...