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Wild West
Robert Foster |
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip.   |
Wild West
William A. Dobak |
Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts. |
Wild West
McCune & Hart |
The Fatal Fetterman Fight Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army's greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. |
Military History Quarterly
Spring 2006
Stuart W. Sanders |
Robert Charles Tyler: Last Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
Sierra Adare |
Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government. |
Civil War Times
July 2007
Michael Dreese |
Fighting and Dying for the Colors at Gettysburg Beyond their practical value on Civil War battlefields, regimental flags and other banners embodied the pride, honor and bravery of the soldiers who willingly gave their lives to defend them. |
America's Civil War
Robert Collins Suhr |
Little Phil Sheridan Wins His Spurs At an obscure railroad station in northern Mississippi, an equally obscure Union cavalry colonel faced a personal and professional moment of truth. His name was Phil Sheridan, and his coolness and dash clearly marked him for bigger things. |
America's Civil War
March 10, 2005
Fred L. Ray |
Pre-Dawn Assault on Fort Stedman Led by select groups of sharpshooters, the weary, muddy troops of the Army of Northern Virginia made one last desperate push to break out of Petersburg. |
Civil War Times
June 2007
Gordon Berg |
American Indian Sharpshooters at the Battle of the Crater In 1864, American Indian sharpshooters fought gallantly beside their black and white comrades in blue in the chaos of the Crater. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
Jeff Broome |
Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes In May 1869, Tall Bull's Cheyenne Dog Soldiers carried out a series of brutal raids in north-central Kansas, and though the white soldiers later caught up with them, vengeance could not make everything right. |
America's Civil War
Donald Scott |
Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
World War II
November 2006
David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
America's Civil War
July 2006
J. David Petruzzi |
Battle of Gettysburg: Who Really Fired the First Shot? When Lieutenant Marcellus Jones touched off a shot in the early morning of July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, he could not have realized that his bullet would create a controversy argued over for decades. |
America's Civil War
Brent L. Vosburg |
Cavalry Clash at Hanover Southern beau sabreur J.E.B. Stuart hardly expected to run head-on into enemy cavalry on his second ride around the Union Army. But a trio of 'boy generals' would soon give the famed Confederate horseman all the action he could handle. |
Wild West
February 2006
John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Spotted Tail's Pledge of Peace War and a terrible winter were fresh memories when the tearful Spotted Tail was allowed to bury his daughter at Fort Laramie. This helped convince the Brule Sioux leader to bury the hatchet forever. |
America's Civil War
Ronald E. Bullock |
Last-Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle. |
World War II
Albano Castelletto |
The Last Horse Warriors In a firsthand account, a former artillery lieutenant recalls his experience with the Voloire Regiment during Operation Barbarossa, when Italy's horse-drawn field artillery proved its worth on the Russian Front. |
Civil War Times
E. E. Billings |
The Fall of Vicksburg On July 4, 1863, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton surrendered the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender brought an end to 47 days of unendurable siege, but it also brought an end to Confederate control of the Mississippi River. |
America's Civil War
John D. Pelzer |
The Union's Mission to Relieve Fort Sumter For three long months, Civl War Major Robert Anderson and his besieged troops waited for reinforcements at Fort Sumter. Back in Washington, Union naval officer Gustavus Fox raced against time to organize just such a mission. |
National Defense
October 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front. |
National Defense
December 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics. |
