By Christopher Miskimon
Special Forces Sergeant Nick Brokhausen awoke to the taste of dirt in his mouth and the crump of exploding mortar bombs. Above him there were voices but he could not tell who they were. Hands pulled him from the ground where he had been lying face down. Nick   More »

Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

Seventy years later, should the “Desert Fox” be considered an anti-Nazi hero or a faithful soldier turned opportunist?   More »

The Austrian and Italian navies fought a desperate battle In the Adriatic sea In 1866. Although outnumbered, the Austrians prevailed.   More »

Kansas Brigadier James Henry Lane’s zealous prosecution of the Union cause made him a marked man in the western theater.   More »

Clifton Cates was a tenacious Marine in
World War I who rose through the ranks to become commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.   More »

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest rose from the ranks to become a daring and audacious cavalry commander during the American Civil War.   More »

Union General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea was a defining chapter in the American Civil War; Sherman became remembered in the South as a brutal proponent of total war.   More »

Paul Braddock, author of Dog Tags: A History of the American Military Identification Tag 1861-2002, talks dog tag collections and the history of military IDs.   More »

Thaddeus Lowe and his Union Army Balloon Corps pioneered aerial reconnaissance over some of the first battlefields of the American Civil War.   More »