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Abigail Adams Persevered Through Siege and Smallpox to Support the Revolution
.image-13790561 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.88%; --top: 67.11%; } On June 17, 1775, a vicious battle rocked Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Mass. That first major engagement of the Revolution saw...
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This Marine Used a Gunny Outhouse Without Permission. Then He Accidentally...
.image-13792269 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.75%; --top: 13.17%; } Phu Bai was a raw, unpolished Marine Corps base. Many of the structures were only tents or dilapidated buildings. The airport could...
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Louisa May Alcott Wanted to Be a Nurse…Until She Realized It Required Bathing...
.image-13792885 { max-height: 100%; --left: 36.36%; --top: 62.55%; } New England novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is perhaps best known as the author of young adult fiction, including Little...
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A Raw Look at Confederate Soldiers at First Manassas
.image-13791809 { max-height: 100%; --left: 35.91%; --top: 23.89%; } The opposing forces that met on the plains of Manassas, Va., on July 21, 1861, had much in common, particularly their lack of...
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A Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipient Shares Leadership Lessons
.image-13793996 { max-height: 100%; --left: 73.19%; --top: 29.54%; } Lt. Gen. Robert F. Foley has led a distinguished career in the U.S. Army. Graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,...
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A Desperate Quest for a Shower Soon Turned Into a Comedy of Errors for this...
During Vietnam’s dry season there is not a lot of water. It is rationed. As the dry season progressed our water turned yellow. In the communications center we had a five-gallon plastic jug. We used to...
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‘Oh! my soul—what a sight presented itself!’: A Witness to the July 1863 New...
.image-13793659 { max-height: 100%; --left: 37.34%; --top: 49.67%; } In her day, Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a national figure. Born in Maine in 1806, she and her family moved to New York City in the...
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The Real Story Behind 58 Confederate Bodies Tossed in a Well
.image-13793563 { max-height: 100%; --left: 79.88%; --top: 47.36%; } On September 14, 1862, fighting broke out on South Mountain, Md., as portions of the Army of the Potomac clashed with Army of...
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How Wheat’s Tigers’ Opening Gambit at First Manassas Turned to Legend
.image-13793488 { max-height: 100%; --left: 61.06%; --top: 37.57%; } William S. Love of the 1st Special Battalion of Louisiana Infantry had little time to revel in his army’s victory at the First...
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When a Vietnamese Ally Was Wounded, Two American Soldiers Had to Choose...
John Haseman was a captain assigned as a Deputy District Senior Adviser (DDSA) in Mo Cay District, Kien Hoa Province, in the Mekong Delta. He had arrived at Advisory Team 88 in July 1971 and was DDSA...
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This Signal Operator Witnessed Nixon’s Withdrawals from Vietnam. What He Saw...
On June 8, 1969, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Republic of Vietnam (RVN) President Nguyen Van Thieu stood side-by-side at Midway Island and formally launched Vietnamization. The goal was to allow...
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Observations on the Carnage of a Dreadful Day at Sharpsburg
.image-13794349 { max-height: 100%; --left: 38.87%; --top: 67.05%; } In 1866 Private Alexander Hunter, formerly of the 17th Virginia Infantry’s famed “Alexandria Riflemen,” wrote an illuminating...
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World War I Enemies Played Football During A Christmas Truce–Except Maybe...
.image-13795572 { max-height: 100%; --left: 40.20%; --top: 31.42%; } Over the Christmas period in 1914, fraternization took place in No Man’s Land between British and German soldiers at St. Yvon in...
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No Rules For Generals in Vietnam?
.image-13795167 { max-height: 100%; --left: 55.69%; --top: 27.35%; } In autumn 1969, I was stationed in a bunker on the radio. I was to communicate with the perimeter guards and helicopters if in...
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‘Weary of So Much Suffering’: Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital
.image-13794852 { max-height: 100%; --left: 69.28%; --top: 35.59%; } A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested city of Winchester, Va., were unfortunately all too...
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Meet the Norwegian Warrior Who Fought in Vietnam
In one of the most outstanding memoirs that this reviewer has had the privilege of reading, retired U.S. Army Col. Henrik “Hank” Lunde gives a detailed account of his life experiences and strug-gles...
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How Did World Media View the War in Vietnam?
.image-13795160 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } This formerly classified analysis of media coverage on the Vietnam War was prepared by famed journalist and war correspondent...
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His Sergeant in Vietnam Became His Hero. He Never Forgot It.
.image-13795165 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.40%; --top: 49.24%; } Willie Johnson was a 35-year-old African American from South Carolina with a wife and six kids. What did I, a 20-year-old single...
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His Father was Kidnapped By Communists. He Went To America’s Aid in the...
.image-13795219 { max-height: 100%; --left: 58.38%; --top: 58.18%; } In 1964, the Republic of Korea (ROK) dispatched soldiers to assist the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in its fight against communism....
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This Gurkha Lost His Hand and Eye Fighting off More Than 200 Japanese in Burma
.image-13796556 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } In the darkness, despite having lost the fingers of his right hand and suffered severe shrapnel wounds, Gurkha Rifleman Lachhiman...
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