A New Hampshire officer describes the deadly push up Marye’s Heights in December 1862.
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Night Jump into Dien Bien Phu: An Eyewitness Account From A French Paratrooper Captured by the Viet Minh
An eyewitness account of events at Dien Bien Phu from Pierre Fauroux, the executive officer of a parachute battalion
Showdown on Lake Erie: An Eyewitness Recalls ‘the Second War of Independence’
In 1813 Samuel R. Brown took part in a key battle in what he called “the Second War of Independence”
Eyewitness: Custer’s Last Stand
On June 25, 1876, one of the Indians facing Custer and his 7th Cavalry […]
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta
In late July 1864, Major General William T. Sherman’s Union army closed in on […]
Artists | Eyewitness to Horror
Published 35 years after his death, Goya’s The Disasters of War has etched the cruel suffering of war into our collective memory.
Book Review: Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight
John Monnett frames the 1866 Fetterman Fight on the Bozeman Trail (in present-day Wyoming) from the viewpoint of Lakota and Cheyenne participants
Culture: Eyewitness to Glory
A merchant captain turned marine painter, Nicholas Pocock captured the ferocity of the British-French […]
‘I Heard a Pistol Shot’: Eyewitness to the Assassination of Lincoln
A soldier who rarely went to the theater witnessed the drama of the century on April 14, 1865.
Eyewitness to War: A Confederate Soldier’s Account of the Civil War
‘I wish I could go to sleep and not wake up for a month’: […]