John Taylor Wood, Hero of the Confederate Navy
•May 17, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
A skilled, brilliant officer in the Confederate Navy, John Taylor Wood inflicted major damage on the U.S. Navy. More »
•May 17, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
A skilled, brilliant officer in the Confederate Navy, John Taylor Wood inflicted major damage on the U.S. Navy. More »
•May 6, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The Whig Party had better luck electing presidents than keeping them in office once they were elected. More »
•January 31, 2019 • 1 Comment
On September 20, 1846, Colonel Jefferson Davis and a regiment of untested Mississippi volunteers stood before the fortress of La Teneria in Northern Mexico. More »
•January 26, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
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 »
•January 23, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
Confederate Earl Van Dorn did not have the right stuff to succeed as an army commander, but he excelled as a cavalry general. More »
•January 16, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
The five-month campaign by the U.S. Army in 1847 to capture Mexico City pitted Winfield Scott against Antonio de Santa Anna. More »
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On July 13, 1861, Confederate General Robert S. Garnett fell to Yankee bullets in the Alleghenies. More »
•December 23, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Politician-general Nathaniel Bank’s grand design to capture Shreveport floundered in the mud of the treacherous Red River in the spring of 1864. More »
•November 29, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
Led by “Old Rough and Ready,” the outnumbered American Army drove Mexican forces back across the Rio Grande and moved on to Palo Alto. More »
•November 26, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
New York newspaperman Moses Beach undertook a secret mission for President James K. Polk at the height of the war with Mexico. More »
