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Albert Sidney Johnston: Too Little, Too Late to Win the Western War
The general expected to save the Confederate heartland made a series of poor tactical and strategic decisions
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Confirmed Grant’s Greatness
Obscure Union general learns that only hard, long fighting and logistics will win the war
Dying FDR’s Right-Hand Man Ran the War
Admiral William Leahy was the acting commander in chief as the president's health failed
Book Review: The Black Legend
Doug Hocking reviews the circumstances and figures involved in the Bascom Affair, a catalyst of the 19th-century Apache wars
Confederate Ironclad Albemarle’s Designer Was a Teenager
Gilbert Elliott was only 19 when he oversaw construction of the fearsome warship
Dorsey Pender’s July 1 Attack on Seminary Ridge Helped Inspire Pickett’s Charge
Lee was impressed by the young major general's success in pushing Union troops through Gettysburg
Alamo Next of Kin: ‘Bought With the Blood of My Child’
The families of the Texians who died defending the Alamo wove their own stories of courage and survival
Washington Came This Close to Executing an Innocent Man
The American commander was pressured to hang a Redcoat officer in retaliation for a patriot's murder
Hard Truth About Disarmament: Diplomacy Means Diddly
Iran will build a bomb when it's ready, despite treaty restrictions
Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield
An Afghan War veteran laments the disappearance of hallowed landscape
Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter's scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as 'crying wolf'
Civil War Veterans’ Shocking Souvenirs—Bullets in Their Bodies
Decades after soldiers were wounded, bits of lead showed up in X-rays, or simply appeared
Book Review: On a Knife’s Edge
Prit Buttar properly sets the WWII Battle of Stalingrad amid the broader context of winter campaigns in the Ukraine
The Failed Mission to Take Out Germany’s Desert Fox
Looking to score big, a young British commando set his sights on a famous target: General Erwin Rommel
