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Civil War Times E. E. Billings |
The Fall of Vicksburg On July 4, 1863, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton surrendered the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender brought an end to 47 days of unendurable siege, but it also brought an end to Confederate control of the Mississippi River. |
Civil War Times Thomas P. Lowry |
The Irish Desert Fox He turned terrified villagers into crack troops and mules into walking bombs. Paddy Graydon was the Union's secret weapon in New Mexico. |
Military History Andrew Uffindell |
Women of Waterloo As was the case throughout the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo saw its share of female participants -- and casualties. |
Vietnam Darrell D. Whitcomb |
Brave Jolly Green The entire North Vietnamese Army was on the move, but that didn't stop the Air Force's search and rescue helicopters. |
Vietnam John W. Flores |
Marine's Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue With the 1996 commissioning of the guided-missile destroyer USS Alfredo Gonzalez, a Marine Medal of Honor recipient's legacy lives on. |
Vietnam Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
Vietnam Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Wild West Orval E. Allbritton |
Lawmen's Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs In the popular Arkansas resort town, members of the police department and sheriff's office resorted to violence in March 1899 -- against each other. |
Wild West Guttman & Mancini |
Mountie with Nerves of Steele North-West Mounted Police Inspector Sam Steele became a force and a legend within a legendary law enforcement agency. |
Wild West William A. Dobak |
Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts. |
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