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Driven Mad By His Wife’s Passing, This Union Soldier Suffered an Ignoble Death
John Wesley Horner fought for Michigan but later found himself teaching in Kansas before his untimely demise.
Revolutionary War Soldiers Slated for Reburial 243 Years After Battle
The rediscovered remains of American Revolutionary War soldiers who died in South Carolina more than 240 years ago are set to be reinterred this weekend.
He Served the Army and Sitting Bull Well — Both Before and After Facing Charges for Murder
Johnnie Bruguier was both French Canadian and Sioux and learned to straddle both worlds.
Made in Japan, but with an engine by Harley-Davidson
The American company did not know its customer was really the Japanese military.
Civil War Reenactor Goes Off Script, Admits Plan to Bomb Battlefield
A Virginia man recently confessed to bringing a pipe bomb to a Civil War […]
Was the Civil War Really a Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight?
Statistics help us understand who went to war and why.
B-17s Get Their Wings Clipped
Concerns about the wing spars will keep the venerable warplanes on the ground.
This P-47 Will Once Again Take to the Skies
The chubby fighter was recovered from Papua New Guinea, where it had been abandoned by the Army Air Forces in September 1944.