'His Best Day During the Civil War': How Abner Doubleday Helped the Union Win at Gettysburg Doubleday's name resonates today widely as the supposed inventor of baseball. While that contention has been largely debunked...
Rebels at Vicksburg Vowed Revenge Against the Yankee Who Killed Their Camel In the late 1850s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels as pack animals in the American Southwest.
The 101st Airborne's 'Screaming Eagle' Has a Name and a Civil War History The 101st Airborne Division has probably one of the most recognizable insignias in the U.S. military.
6 Things You May Not Know About the End of the Civil War To celebrate the end of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 troops, let's remember just how the war finally ended.
How Disobeyed Orders Led to the Largest Confederate Surrender of the Civil War The Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston was the largest army to surrender to the Union during the Civil War.
Famous Veterans: George Westinghouse Famed inventor and businessman George Westinghouse served in both the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War.
How Civil War Moms Inspired the Creation of Mother's Day Ann Reeves Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe, sick of sons and fathers dying, wanted to remind people of the true cost of war.
How a Civil War Veteran Became One of the Greatest Criminals of All Time Sure, there's nothing technically "great" about living a life of crime, but if that life became the inspiration for one of...
Here's When Army Bases Honoring the Confederacy Will Shed Their Old Names The congressionally mandated Naming Commission, a committee formed to examine all Confederate references across the military...
This Week, Fort Pickett Will Replace Its Confederate Name, a First for an Army Base Following Renaming Commission Fort Pickett will be redesignated Fort Barfoot, honoring Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient with...
Soldier Shot During Special Forces Training Event After Live Ammo Mixed in with Blanks A 7th Infantry Division soldier at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state was accidentally shot April 25 by a 1st...
Marine Corps Offering Thousands of Dollars in Bonuses in Push for More Intelligence Specialists The Marine Corps needs more counterintelligence and human intelligence specialists, also known as CI/HUMINT, and is offering...
30 Sailors and Marines Injured in Training Incident Off Coast of Florida Five sailors were medically evacuated for additional care to a hospital in Georgia, though four of them were released after...
Dick Rutan, Who Set an Aviation Milestone When He Flew Nonstop Around the World, Is Dead at 85 He joined the U.S. Air Force as a teenager and flew more than 300 combat missions during the Vietnam War.
'Existential Threat': Air Guardsmen Slam Proposal to Move Their Units to Space Force Air National Guard leaders and enlisted Guardsmen on Friday called a legislative proposal to move units focused on space...