In 1853, Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission of constructing a permanent water supply for the city. The project ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons learned ... the eccentric commander of the 3rd Army Corps.

In an operating room, Barbara Stimson, an American orthopedic surgeon, works around the ... Forces in France during World War I, leading 10,000 Army nurses in aiding the wounded.

Splits in Russia's army are deepening ... their equipment in order to avoid following orders." Throughout the war, there have been constant reports of Russian soldiers killing themselves after ...

However, as the Civil War developed, the White Armies began to ... The cities provided fresh recruitment for the Red Army. Much of Russia's industry and raw materials was located in this area.

presented the Friends of Frontier Army Museum speaker series lecture Feb. 26, 2025, about his book, “A Kansas Soldier at War: The Civil War Letters of Christian and Elise Dubach Isely,” and ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...

Sudan’s army is edging closer to recapturing the ... would be their most significant victory in two years of brutal civil war. The army claimed to have recaptured nearly all of Khartoum North ...