While numerous accounts exist of President Abraham Lincoln's often-troubled dealings with either his cabinet or his generals, Chester G. Hearn's illuminating history provides the first broad synthesis
The most complete account available of the Union's victory at the battle of New Orleans--a major turning point in the Civil War--analyzes the decisions and misjudgments of Jefferson Davis and the othe
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his highest-ranking general, George B. McClellan, agreed that the United States must preserve the Union. Their differing strategies for
In the Civil War, both sides understood that closing the South’s ports would halt the introduction of war matériel to the industrially weak region. Though the North captured New Orleans in 1862, they
Soon after the start of the Civil War, during the naval buildup on the central Mississippi River, celebrated civil engineer Charles Ellet, Jr., formed the Ram Fleet under U.S. secretary of war Edwin M
Traces the battles over Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which was controlled by twenty-eight different Civil War commanders during the war, and their grievous toll on the lives of the townsfolk and the soldi
While it is commonly known that Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached, less well known are the circumstances that led to the unsuccessful campaign to remove him from office. This acco
In October 1946 Colonel Presley Rixey arrived by destroyer at Chichi Jima to repatriate 22,000 Japanese who had been bypassed during the war in the Pacific. While waiting for a Marine battalion to arr
Read how the Navy's unofficial motto: "Non sibi sed patriae" (not self but country) has been maintained for over 200 years.Navy: An Illustrated History profiles the U.S. Navy's growt
Leathernecks are respected as the elite on countless battlefields around the world; read how they have earned it.The United States Marine Corps's history is one built on tenacity. A handful of bedragg
Read the entire history of how the USAF flies, fights, and wins.From its beginning in 1907 as the Aeronautical Division of US Army's Signal Corps, with just one officer and two enlisted men, the Unite
