Watch Children of Civil War Veterans Talk About Their Fathers Our personal connections with the Civil War and its veterans are a lot closer than we think.
29th Infantry Division Keeps Historic Patch Despite Nod to Service in the Confederate Army The patch, introduced during World War I, is a blue and gray yin and yang, referencing the merger of old Union and...
Gen. Sherman's Unlikely Path to Founding a Military School for Officers Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman developed many of the ideas on which contemporary warfare is based and incorporated them into...
This Civil War Battle Helped Launch a President's Career The Civil War battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, involved James Garfield and has been called "the battle that made a...
Soldier's Journals Tell a Vivid Story About the Irish Brigade and Civil War Pvt. William McCarter of the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry was part of the Army of the Potomac's legendary Irish Brigade.
What Confederate President Jefferson Davis Wrote to His Brother Among what Jefferson Davis wrote to his brother, Joseph: "All I have, except my wife and children, I am ready to sacrifice...
Fort Liberty? Bragg and 8 Other Bases Get New Proposed Names to Scrub Confederate Links The proposed names must now go to Congress and be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
How Douglas MacArthur's Father Helped Deliver 'the Death Knell of the Confederacy' Douglas MacArthur's father, Arthur, earned a Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the...
A Hungarian Immigrant's 'Zagonyi Death Ride' Beat the Odds During the Civil War Gen. John C. Fremont appointed Charles Zagonyi to organize and command an elite unit known as the Body Guard or the Jesse...
Harriet Tubman and the Often Overlooked History of Her Civil War Military Raids Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less...
Army ROTC Programs at Dozens of Campuses Are Being Shut Down or Reorganized The Army is undertaking a major shake-up of its Reserve Officers' Training Corps footprint, shutting down or reorganizing...
Afghan Ally Who Was Detained by ICE Now Facing Fast-Tracked Deportation Sayed Naser Noori, whose legal team has provided reporters with paperwork confirming he worked with the military as an...
New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that...
After Offer of Back Pay, Only 13 COVID Vaccine Refusers Returned to Military Service Months after the Pentagon rolled out a policy aimed at wooing back service members booted from the military over the COVID-19...
LA Army Veteran with Purple Heart Self-Deports to South Korea Under Threat of Deportation An Army veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea as he was threatened with being detained and...
