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Pershing’s Hammer: The Meuse–Argonne Offensive
By William StroockAt 0100 hours on September 12, 1918, German positions in the St. Mihiel salient on the Western Front were lit up by a massive artillery barrage. Read more
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A Relic of the Pacific Theater
For U.S. forces, the Pacific Theater was orchestrated by two leading commanders: Admiral Chester Nimitz controlled the Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), and General MacArthur was the Supreme Allied Commander of the South West Pacific Area (SWPA). Read more
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Was Sherman’s March a “Counterinsurgency Campaign”?
It isn’t how most would characterize William T. Sherman’s famous march across Georgia in 1864, but Thomas Ricks of Stars and Stripes begs to differ. Read more
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A World War I Retrospective from York University’s History Department
June 28, 2014 will mark a key milestone in military history: it will be the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I. Read more
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Building the B-29 Superfortress Bomber
By Joe Kirby
When Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the hard-driving commander of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force based in Guam, decided to change tactics in early 1945 to boost the effectiveness of the B-29 Superfortress, it was the Bell Aircraft plant in Marietta, Georgia, that ultimately provided him with the stripped-down bombers that played such a key role in ending the war in the Pacific. Read more
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Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Medical Innovations Spurred by Combat
By Richard A. GabrielBefore the Gulf War, the U.S. Army was medically configured to deal with casualties expected to occur in a large-scale conventional conflict. Read more
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Avenues of Invasion: Captain Andrew Foote and Ulysses S. Grant
by Pedro GarciaSeen from the Atlantic coast, the task of Northern armies appeared (at least to a skeptic) almost impossible, for the South looked truly boundless, an ocean of fields, valleys, mountains, forests, and rivers. Read more
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Before M*A*S*H: Portable Army Surgical Hospitals in World War II
By Glen BarnettMobile Army Surgical Hospitals, or M*A*S*H units, were popularized by Richard Hooker’s novel series, the 1970 film starring Donald Southerland and of course the long-running television show starring Alan Alda. Read more
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Sir George Pomeroy Colley’s Failed Boer Wars Campaign
by Vince HawkinsGeorge Pommery Colley was born on November 1, 1835, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the third son of George Pommery Colley of Rathangan, County Kildare, Ireland. Read more
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Fort Sumter: A Photographical Diary
by Al HemingwayAs the epicenter of the Civil War, Fort Sumter naturally attracted much photographic attention. The first photographer to visit the fort after the 1861 bombardment and surrender was F.K. Read more
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Robert E. Lee’s “Right Arm”
Following his greatest victory, at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was scouting ahead of the lines with members of his staff when tragedy struck. Read more
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The Battle of Chancellorsville and the Death of Stonewall Jackson
Following his greatest victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was scouting ahead of the lines with members of his staff when tragedy struck. Read more
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The Confederate Army: Letters Home
by Earl EchelberryOn May 10, 1861 the Confederate Secretary of War, L.P. Walker, assigned “control of the forces of the Confederate States in Virginia” to Maj. Read more
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Abraham Lincoln and the Election that Shaped the Confederacy
by Roy Morris Jr.The sudden wreck of the Whig Party in the 1850s led to the development of a new political party to contend with Stephen Douglas and the Democrats. Read more
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The Decline of Stephen Douglas and the American Whig Party
By Roy Morris Jr.It was unseasonably warm in Charleston when the Democratic National Convention opened for business at noon on April 23, 1860. Read more
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Union Army Defeat at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff
By Conan BrewIn the wake of the humiliating and unexpected defeat, and fourth in a line that stretched back to Fort Sumter, the Battle of Bull Run, and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, the Union Congress created a seven-man Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War to oversee and review all battles and the events surrounding them. Read more
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Missouri Joins the Civil War: Prelude to the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
by Joshua van DereckAt the beginning of 1861, Missouri was in turmoil. A slave state since its inception in 1820, Missouri had grown increasingly tied to urban industry. Read more
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Ulysses S. Grant: Clerk to Commanding General
by Donald J. Roberts IIThe Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, marked the beginning of the American Civil War. Read more
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The Anaconda Plan: Lincoln and Scott’s Move on the Mississippi River
by Donald J. Roberts IIIn theory, sealing off Southern seaports was supposed to cause economic ruin in the South, which in turn would diminish the Confederacy’s ability to wage war. Read more
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Women in the Civil War: Private Albert D.J. Cashier
by John WalkerJennie Irene Hodgers was born in Ireland in 1843 or 1844 and sailed to New York with her family. Read more
