Shanghai’s infamous Bridge House Hotel was a place of torture and death for untold numbers of Chinese and Allied prisoners.   More »

By Eric Niderost

July 3, 1863, dawned clear and bright, the warm sun promising even greater heat to come. By noon, temperatures were already in the low 90s, a typically hot and humid summer day in southern Pennsylvania. The action on the ground would soon get even hotter. Five days earlier,   More »

The Battle of Gettysburg was of course a pivotal moment in the American Civil War, but the facts are sometimes more bizarre than the legends.   More »

Bushrod Johnson found fame as a Confederate general in the Civil War. An unlikely destiny for a man who had been born in Ohio and raised as a Quaker.   More »

Confederate Earl Van Dorn did not have the right stuff to succeed as an army commander, but he excelled as a cavalry general.   More »

This Civil War Timeline by William Welsh highlights the key events of 1861 and the political, social and military influences that led to the war.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that Cold Harbor was the one battle he “would not fight again.” Many federal soldiers who survived would agree.   More »

The five-month campaign by the U.S. Army in 1847 to capture Mexico City pitted Winfield Scott against Antonio de Santa Anna.   More »

George B. McClellan forced the Confederates in northwestern Virginia to retreat into the Alleghenies in 1861. It fell to Robert E. Lee to bring stability to the situation.   More »

Early in the morning on May 6, 1864, a column of Confederates marched east as quietly as possible along the bed of an unfinished railroad that knifed through the dense wilderness south of Virginia’s Rapidan River. Echoing in the head of Chief of Staff Lt. Col. G Moxley Sorrel were   More »