Ogle’s Ruination: How alcohol ended a West Pointer’s promising military career
By William Gorenfeld Ruination by drink is an unfortunate but common tale in military as well as civilian life. In all ranks and all regiments of the antebellum army or,
By William Gorenfeld Ruination by drink is an unfortunate but common tale in military as well as civilian life. In all ranks and all regiments of the antebellum army or,
By Naomi Subotnick with images from the Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress This portrait of two men seated side by side conflates two very different worlds. On
One can easily envision Nathan Bedford Forrest as the Confederacy’s sole cavalry genius. Often-repeated references to him as “The Wizard of the Saddle” and “That Devil Forrest” reinforce the vision
Had a Wrestling Match Decided the Battle… Odds are George Washington Flagg of the 2nd Infantry would have won it for the federals. The 6-foot temperance man and sergeant was
By Mike Medhurst In late 1827, a second lieutenant fresh from the U.S. Military Academy arrived at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. He was Philip St. George Cooke, a son
Hell Canyon in Arizona Territory was Apache country, and the scene of several violent and deadly acts in the late 1860s. One such event, a skirmish fought on July 3,
A soldier brandishes a spear-point Bowie knife as he sits in front of a painted canvas, familiarly known as the Confederate Hill backdrop. Only a few known military portraits with
Though the phrase “an army marches on its stomach” is credited to Napoleon or Frederick the Great, it might easily have been uttered by Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E.
By Kurt Luther Most of the time, Civil War photo sleuthing feels like searching for a needle in vast haystacks of books, photo collections and websites. And, we’d be thrilled